Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface

Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface

by Eric R Wolf (Author), Noel L. Diaz (Illustrator)

Synopsis

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 534
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01 Jul 1992

ISBN 10: 0520048989
ISBN 13: 9780520048980

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Wolf's empirical knowledge is exceptionally wide. . . . He relies on a skillful selection of phenomena in time and space that are reasonably representative of the totality. . . . The book is very well written and with a profoundly human touch. --Magnus Morner, Ethnos
Author Bio
Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999) was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.