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Eric R. Wolf

Born

in Vienna, Austria

February 01, 1923

Died

March 06, 1999

Genre

Social Sciences

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Anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxian perspectives within anthropology.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,672 ratings · 91 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Europe and the People Without History 4.13 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 1982 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century 3.78 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peasants 3.67 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1965 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sons of the Shaking Earth: The People of Mexico and Guatemala--Their Land, History, and Culture 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1959 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis 3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World by Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram Yengoyan (Foreword) 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthropology 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Condition in Latin America by Eric R. Wolf, Edward C. Hansen 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pueblos y culturas de Mesoamérica by Eric R. Wolf, Felipe Sarabia (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1959 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology (Suny Series in Contemporary) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries that disassemble this totality into bits and then fail to reassemble it falsify reality. Concepts like “nation,” “society,” and “culture” name bits and threaten to turn names into things. Only by understanding these names as bundles of relationships, and by placing them back into the field from which they were abstracted, can we hope to avoid misleading inferences and increase our share of understanding.”
― Eric R. Wolf

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“By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls”
― Eric R. Wolf

tags: anthropology, history, politics

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“We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of and in opposition to other societies and civilizations. Many of us even grew up believing that this West has a genealogy, according to which ancient Greece begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe, Christian Europe begat the Renaissance, the Renaissance the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment political democracy and the industrial revolution. Industry, crossed with democracy, in turn yielded the United States, embodying the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
― Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History

tags: anthropology, history

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