Pathways of power : building an anthropology of the modern world / Eric R. Wolf with Sydel Silverman ; foreword by Aram A. Yengoyan.
| Author/creator | Wolf, Eric R. |
| Other author | Silverman, Sydel. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xx, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Available to Stanford-affiliated users at |
| Subjects |
| Contents | American anthropologists and American society -- Kroeber revisited -- Remarks on the people of Puerto Rico -- On fieldwork and theory -- Anthropology among the powers -- Building the nation -- The social organization of Mecca and the origins of Islam -- Aspects of group relations in a complex society: Mexico -- The Virgin of Guadalupe: a Mexican national symbol -- Closed corporate peasant communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java -- The vicissitudes of the closed corporate peasant community -- Kinship, friendship, and patron-client relations in complex societies -- Ethnicity and nationhood -- Types of Latin American peasantry: a preliminary discussion -- Specific aspects of plantation systems in the new world: community subculture and social classes -- Peasants and revolution -- Phases of rural protest in Latin America -- Is the "peasantry" a class? -- On peasant rent -- The second serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America -- Peasant nationalism in an Alpine valley -- Culture: panacea or problem? -- Inventing society -- The mills of inequality: a Marxian approach -- Incorporation and identity in the making of the modern world -- Ideas and power -- Facing power: old insights, new questions -- Perilous ideas: race, culture, people. |
| Local note | Little-348299--305131054591. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-445) and index. |
| LCCN | 00055969 |
| ISBN | 0520223330 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520223332 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520223349 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520223349 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GN345 .W643 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |