Eric Wolf

Also known as Eric R. Wolf, Eric Robert Wolf

American anthropologist (1923-1999)

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Sons of the Shaking Earth. The People of Mexico and Guatemale - Their Land, History, and Culture
Haven Beyond the Stars
Capitalism
Europa y La Gente Sin Historia
Pueblos Y Culturas De Mesoamerica

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“Anthropology is the most scientific of humanities, the most humanistic of sciences. (1964)”
“The German catastrophe was of course the vortex of other catastrophes : Jewish, French, Gypsy, Polish and Russian, to name but a few way stations on the descent into hell. What the National Socialists wrought is, without a doubt, a cause of moral outrage, but outrage is not enough. It is vital that we gain an analytic purchase on what transpired, precisely because it embodied a possibility for humankind, and what was humanly possible can happen again.”
“Although I wrote as an anthropologist rather than as a professional historian, I think history matters. It is also important to understand how an why these systems develop and extend their sway over people, and I located the rationale in the ways power and the economy sustain and drive each other on.”
“There may be "pie in the sky when you die" but how the pie is dished out on the ground has considerable existential relevance.”
“I acknowledge my debt to Marxian thought without apology.”
“Our methods were becoming more sophisticated, but their yield seemed increasingly commonplace. To stem a descent into triviality, I thought, we needed to search out the causes of the present in the past.”

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