Eric R. Wolf

ic R. Wolf

Analyzes the history of European peasants, workers, and artisans as they were affected by major economic developments and trends

Europe and the People Without History

Avrupa ve Tarihsiz Halklar

Sydel Silverman

This collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems in to its purview.

Building an Anthropology of the Modern World

Pathways of Power

John W. Cole

A study of two small villages located on the high alpine rim of northern Italy, one German speaking, the other a Romance -speaking village.

Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

The Hidden Frontier

"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power."-New York Times Book Review "Eric Wolf's study of the six great peasant-based revolutions of the century demonstrates a mastery of his field and the methods required to negotiate it that evokes respect and admiration. In six crisp essays, and a brilliant conclusion, he extends our understanding of the nature of peasant reactions to social change appreciably by his skill in isolating and analyzing those factors, which, by a magnification of the anthropologist's techniques, can be shown to be crucial in linking local grievances and protest to larger movements of political transformation."--American Political Science Review "An intellectual tour de force."--Comparative Politics

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

ideologías de dominación y crisis

Figurar el poder

This text explores the historical relationship of ideas, power and culture. Looking at several case studies, it analyses how the regnant ideology intertwines with power around the pivotal relationships that govern social labour.

Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis

Envisioning Power

Peasants

This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book’s innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages—the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret—only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.

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