Articulating Hidden Histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf

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Jane Schneider, Rayna Rapp
University of California Press, Jan 9, 1995 - History - 400 pages
With his groundbreaking Europe and the People Without History, Eric R. Wolf powerfully advanced the project of integrating the disciplines of anthropology and history. In Articulating Hidden Histories, many of those influenced by Wolf—both anthropologists and historians—acknowledge the contribution of this great scholar while extending his work by presenting their own original field and archival research.

The "hidden histories" referred to here encompass the histories of economic and political forces capable of dislodging people from their surroundings, of the people thus dislocated, and of the anthropological concepts developed to understand such processes. Within this framework, the contributors explore an extraordinarily wide range of topics, from the invention of tribalism in colonial West Africa to the ecological activism of North American housewives.

This collection offers a fitting tribute not only to Eric Wolf's work, but to its continuing influence on the fields of anthropology and history.
 

Contents

An Examination of Eric R Wolfs
31
The Cultural History of Peasantries
51
Capital Ritual and Boundaries of the Closed Corporate Community
67
A Reevaluation of Irish Custom
82
Articulations with Kinship
94
Prefigurations of the Vietnamese Revolution
108
Confronting
125
Tocquevillians versus Keynesians
142
Housewife Activists
190
State Power Regional Conflict
207
Romania 1991
228
National Identity as a Cultural Battleground
262
Cultural DisIntegration and the Invention of New PeaceFares
275
an Ethnic Construct
308
Recovering Womens Histories from
322
WORKS BY ERIC R WOLF
351

Labor and Environmental Conflict
156
Genetic Counseling in a Shifting World
175
REFERENCES
357
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