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Eric Wolf 1923-1999 -  Austria, England, United States


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1951 Culture Change and Culture Stability in a Puerto Rican Coffee Community. Ph. D. Dissertation, Columbia University, New York.

1953 La Formacion de la Nacion. Ciencias Sociales 4:50-62,8-111, 146-71.

1955a The Mexican Bajio in the Eighteenth century: An Analysis of Cultural Integration. Middle American Research Institute Publication 17: 177-200.

1955b Types of Latin American peasantry. A preliminary Discussion. American Anthropology 57:452-71.

1956a San Jose: Subcultures of a "Traditional" Coffee Municipality. In Julian steward ed., The People of Puerto Rico, pp.171-264. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1956b Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico. American Anthropologist 58: 1065-78.

1957 Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica And Central Java. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13: 1-18.

The Virgin of Guadalupe. Journal of American Folklore 71: 34-39.

Sons of the Shaking Earth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1962 Cultural Dissonance in the Italian Alps'. Comparative Studies in Society and History 5: 1-14.

1964a Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

1964b Santa Claus: Notes on a Collective Representation. In Robert A. Manners ed., Process and Pattern in Culture, pp.147-55. Chicago: Aldine.

1966a Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies'. In Michael Banton ed., The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies, pp.1-22. ASA Monographs. London: Tavistock.

1966b Peasants. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

1969a On Pesant Rebellions. International Journal of the Social Sciences 21: 286-93.

1969b Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century. New York: Harper & Row.

American Anthropologists and American society. In Dell Hymes ed., Reinventing Anthropology 251-63. New York: Pantheon.

1972 Encounter with Norbert Elias. In Peter Gleichmann et al. eds., Human Fiturations: Essays for Norbert Elias, pp.28-35. Amsterdam: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift.

1981 The mills of inequality: a Marxian approach. InGerald Berreman ed., Social Inequality: Comparative and Developmental Approaches, pp.41-57. New York: Academic Press.

Europe and the People without History. Los Angeles/Berkeley: University of California Press.

1984 Culture: Panacea or Problem? American Antiquity 49(2): 393-400.

1986 The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community. American Ethnologist 13: 325-29.

1988 Inventing Society. American Ethnologist 15:752-61.

1990 Distinguished lecture: Facing Power. Old Insights,New Questions. American Anthropologist 92:586-96.

1994a Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People. Current Anthropology 35(1): 1-12.

1994b Explaining Mesoamerica. Social Anthropology 2(1): 1-17.

1994c Comments on "Anthropology in the Society of the 1990s" by Edward H. Spicer. Human Organization 53(4): 405-407.


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Abbink, Jan & Hans Vermeulen eds. 1992 History and Culture: Essays on the Work of Eric R. Wolf. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

Cole, John W. and Eric R. Wolf 1974 The Hidden Frontier. Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley. New York: Academic Press.

Friedman, Jonathan 1987 An Interview with Eric Wolf. Current anthropology 28: 107-118.

Ghani, Ashraf 1987 A Conversation with Eric Wolf. American Ethnologist 14:346-366.

Roseberry, W. 1988 Political Economy. Annual Review of Anthropology 17:161-85.

Wolf, Eric R. 1956b Aspects of Group relations in a complex society: Mexico. American Anthropologist 58:1065-78.

1984 Culture: Panacea or Problem? American Antiquity 49(2): 393-400.

1988 Inventing Society. American Ethnologist 15:752-61.

1994a Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People. Current Anthropology 35(1): 1-12.

Worsley, Peter 1984 A Landmark in Anthropology. American Ethnologist: 171-176.


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