Pathways of power : building an anthropology of the modern world / Eric R. Wolf with Sydel Silverman ; foreword by Aram A. Yengoyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Eric R., 1923-1999.

Contributor:

Silverman, Sydel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Comparative method.

Political anthropology.

Power (Social sciences).

Group identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prepared introductions to each section and individual pieces, as well as an intellectual autobiography that introduces the collection as a whole. Sydel Silverman, who completed the editing of the book, says in her preface, "He wanted this selection of his writings over the past half-century to serve as part of the history of how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems into its purview."

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword: Culture and Power in the Writings of Eric R. Wolf

Preface

Introduction: An Intellectual Autobiography

Part I. Anthropology

Part II. Connections

Part III. Peasants

Part IV. Concepts

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-445) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612758836

9781282758834

1282758837

9781597347976

1597347973

9780520924871

0520924878

OCLC:

475930220