Some histories are more possible than others: Structural power, big pictures and the goal of explanation in the anthropology of Eric Wolf

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-57

  Gledhill, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Eric Wolf; Ethnography; Modernity and postmodernity; Power; World systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544277992     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X05048612     Document Type: Review

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