"Eric Wolf has literally set the terms for anthropological thinking
about peasantries, culture and power, complex societies, and
interactions between noncapitalist societies and capitalism. Every
item in this excellent collection has stimulated and influenced
both my own thought and that of many others in our field, as well
as beyond it. "--Katherine Verdery, University of Michigan
"This powerful body of work begins ('Anthropology') and ends
('Concepts') in a rather speculative vein, taking us into the ideas
of others and then back to Wolf. In these two sections we get a
picture of the development of currents in anthropology (and the
social sciences more broadly) from the early fifties to the present
and the way in which Wolf's intellectual and political development
was threaded through those debates and controversies. In the middle
two sections ('Connections' and 'Peasants') we get the pathbreaking
pieces that made Wolf the major figure he is. "--Gavin Smith,
University of Toronto
"There is a large audience, to be found in anthropology and in
related fields like history, cultural studies, gender studies,
etc., who will receive the writings of Eric Wolf with appreciation.
. . . His work is fully in the comparative anthropological
tradition . . . [and] demonstrates the power of comparative
historical analysis. "--Abraham Rosman, Barnard College, Columbia
University
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