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With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. Responding to social-science notions of ideology that incorporate power but disregard the ways ideas respond to cultural promptings, he demonstrates how power an
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eric Robert Wolf
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520921726
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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