Eric Wolf
Eric Wolf · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Anthropologist known for 'Europe and the People Without History'
1923, Vienna, Austria — 1999, Irvington, New York, United States
United States · Austria
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Wolf was an anthropologist whose 1982 book Europe and the People Without History linked local cultures to global economic and colonial history, reshaping economic and political anthropology. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled Nazism and later served in the U.S. Army. His work centered peasants, power and world systems in anthropology.
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Anthropologist known for 'Europe and the People Without History'
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