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 InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxx, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 noteLittle-348299--305131054591.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 413-445) and index.
LCCN 00055969
ISBN0520223330 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520223332 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520223349 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520223349 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN345 .W643 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold