Pathways of Power
Subtitle: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780520223349
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Political anthropology; Comparative method; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Power (Social sciences); Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Ethnology; Philosophy
First sentence: My first serious effort to reflect on anthropology as a discipline was undertaken more than a decade after I earned my doctorate, after three rounds of intensive fieldwork and several theoretical excursions into the anthropology of complex societies.
Description: "This collection of twenty-eight essays by Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan."--BOOK JACKET.