Eric Robert Wolf
Good Afternoon my readers, Do you know Eric Wolf? He was an important anthropologist, whose studies form the basis for the Latin American current of our discipline. He was born in 1923 and is best known for his Marxian support to the social analysis.
Good Afternoon my readers, Do you know Eric Wolf? He was an important anthropologist, whose studies form the basis for the Latin American current of our discipline. He was born in 1923 and is best known for his Marxian support to the social analysis.
Two contributions of Eric Wolf in anthropology -in my opinion- are:
• His studies about peasantry, and the emphasis in colonialism problems, the power and politics help us to understand the Latinoamerican reality with a Historic approach into a socio-economics contexts.
• His effort to keep the discipline’s concentration into the reality and the work field.
Today his influence is still relevant to any study of Latin America, and methodologically for include the global process to understand problems, like in his book “Europe and the People whithout History”, demonstrating that non-Europeans people were slaves hidden in History by global processes and the power of dominant groups.
I knew him at the University, in Rural Anthropology class to understand the Peasant concept. But also, I read him in many quotations since my first year, in Latinoamerican History and conversations with friends.
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