E Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 10863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7188-1648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Meretas Dilema, Ikhtiar Menemukan Cara
Introduction: Civilization and Progress
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. Each is an aspect of the other. Anthropologists who use, or misuse, words such as &s;acculturation&s; beg this basic question. For the major mode of acculturation, the direct shaping of one culture by another through which civilization develops, has been conquest. Civilization, then, has evolved in two major phases, ancient and modern. The ancient states of China, Egypt, Babylonia…
Job and the Trickster
The Book of Job, generated by an archaic civilization, a society no longer primitive, symbolizes the converse of the primitive notion of the trickster and also represents the origin of our own conceptions of good and evil. It is, so to speak, an ideological pillar of our civilization. The Book of Job, like Plato&s;s Republic which was composed at roughly the same time, is bent upon denying human ambivalence and social ambiguity. Thus Job and Plat…
The Uses of the Primitive
The concept of the primitive is as old as civilization because civilized men have always and everywhere been compelled by the conditions of their existence to try to understand their roots and human possibilities. Primitive society may be regarded as a system in equilibrium, spinning kaleidoscopically on its axis but at a relatively fixed point. The search for the primitive is, then, as old as civilization. It is the search for the Utopia of the …
Epilogue
Kierkegaard, the revolutionary Christian, the most immediate and intimate of critics, defines the present age as the negative unity of the negative reciprocity of all individuals. The God-intoxicated conservatives believe that a society which permits its members fully to express the ambiguity of despair and faith while exploring the limits of human association does not need to bother very much about culture in the ordinary use of the term, that i…
Schizophrenia and Civilization
Schizophrenia is the most prevalent, malignant and intractable of mental illnesses; officially designated schizophrenics occupy one quarter of all hospital beds in the United States, approximately 250,000. One must recognize that the mental health establishment, which the National Institute represents, assumes that the expenditure of vast sums of money on so-called research will eventually reveal the "causes of mental illness" — that money in res…
The Politics of Field Work
In August of 1959, the author flew down from Rome to Kano, across the Mediterranean and Saharan Seas, from the most permanent and vulgar of European cities to the most typical and enduring of Hausa cities. For centuries the town had been the port of entry for the caravans that converged upon it from the trans-Saharan routes. Kano had been one of the original seven Hausa states, founded, according to the chronicle that bears the city&s;s name, in …
The Rule of Law Versus the Order of Custom
This chapter distinguishes the rule of law from the authority of custom. The laws of marriage, to illustrate Bohannan&s;s argument with the sort of concrete example his definition lacks, are not synonymous with the institution of marriage. They reinforce certain rights and obligations while neglecting others. Moreover, they subject partners defined as truant to intervention by an external, impersonal agency whose decisions are sanctioned by the p…
What History Is
Everything that happens in nature or society, happens as history. More specifically, all human events are fundamentally historical. This chapter discusses that these events are not of equal importance; human affairs are often trivial, or apparently chaotic. The current concept of culture which finds its logical level in the idea of culturology is merely an imprecise and arbitrary way of looking at history. It has no dynamic of its own; to confuse…
The Search for the Primitive
The search for the primitive is the attempt to define a primary human potential. All major European languages except Greek seem to have adopted the word primitive from a medieval (Church) Latin source; whether the word was mediated through medieval-modern French, where it first appeared in the 14th century, is, except in the instance of English, difficult to determine. Primitive societies rest on a communalistic economic base. In primitive societ…
Anthropology in Question
Anthropologists and their objects, the studied, despite opposing positions in the "scientific" equation have this much in common: if not equally, still they are each objects of contemporary imperial civilization. The anthropologist implies that structuralism, or whatever the name of the contribution ethnology is destined to make to the understanding of mind, is a higher truth, on the analogy of Freudian theory, in contrast to the psychoanalytic p…
In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of th…
Pathways of PowerBuilding an Anthropology of the Modern World
"Pathways of Power" published on by University of California Press.
Modification in the Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Internet Addiction
The Internet is a new technology that has impacted the world and provided many benefits to its users. At the same time the Internet has had negative ramifications. Some people are becoming preoccupied with the Internet, are unable to control their use, and are jeopardizing employment and relationships. The concept of "Internet addiction" has been proposed as an explanation for uncontrollable, damaging use of this technology. Symptoms of excessive…
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
The Hidden FrontierEcology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley
"This study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book's innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages - the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret - only a mile apart in the same mountain valley."--Jacket.
Sons of the Shaking Earth
Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology
Les Guerres paysannes du vingtieme siecle
Estudios sobre el campesinado latinoamericano: La perspectiva de la antropología social
Anti-Kaplan: Defining the Marxist Tradition
The Human Condition in Latin America
Ownership and Political Ecology
The studies presented in this symposium demonstrate how sophisticated anthropologists have become in following through the connective linkages in local ecosystems and in specifying the parameters of economic change. The Alps, of course, offer a magnificent laboratory to the ecological anthropologist interested in the ramifications, at any given time and over time, of microvariations in altitude, slope, soil, precipitation, temperature, wind, and …
General: Ethnos und Demos: Soziologische Beiträge zur Volkstheorie. Emerich Francis
Anthropologists and the Sponsorship of Anthropological Research
Because of its signal importance in what later transpired this memorandum is reprinted in full below.Together with the NEWSLETTER item on the problem of access this memorandum provided the first indication to many Fellows and members of a set of problems which have been growing in importance for a number of years.Meeting in Denver on November 17 the Executive Board of the Association had its first opportunity to discuss some of these issues since…
In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of th…
Ownership and Political Ecology
The studies presented in this symposium demonstrate how sophisticated anthropologists have become in following through the connective linkages in local ecosystems and in specifying the parameters of economic change. The Alps, of course, offer a magnificent laboratory to the ecological anthropologist interested in the ramifications, at any given time and over time, of microvariations in altitude, slope, soil, precipitation, temperature, wind, and …
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
Anti-Kaplan: Defining the Marxist Tradition
Estudios sobre el campesinado latinoamericano: La perspectiva de la antropología social
De venarum ostiolis 1603 of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1533?-1619) . K. J. Franklin
The People of Puerto Rico
Ethnology and Ethnography: Cultural Surveys of Panama‐Nicaragua‐Guatemala‐El Salvador‐Honduras . R ichard N. A dams
General and Theoretical: The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. Leslie A. White
Meeting Calendar
Anthropologists and the Sponsorship of Anthropological Research
Because of its signal importance in what later transpired this memorandum is reprinted in full below.Together with the NEWSLETTER item on the problem of access this memorandum provided the first indication to many Fellows and members of a set of problems which have been growing in importance for a number of years.Meeting in Denver on November 17 the Executive Board of the Association had its first opportunity to discuss some of these issues since…
General: Ethnos und Demos: Soziologische Beiträge zur Volkstheorie. Emerich Francis
Ownership and Political Ecology
The studies presented in this symposium demonstrate how sophisticated anthropologists have become in following through the connective linkages in local ecosystems and in specifying the parameters of economic change. The Alps, of course, offer a magnificent laboratory to the ecological anthropologist interested in the ramifications, at any given time and over time, of microvariations in altitude, slope, soil, precipitation, temperature, wind, and …
The Human Condition in Latin America
Estudios sobre el campesinado latinoamericano: La perspectiva de la antropología social
Anti-Kaplan: Defining the Marxist Tradition
Les Guerres paysannes du vingtieme siecle
Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology
Sons of the Shaking Earth
The Hidden FrontierEcology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley
"This study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book's innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages - the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret - only a mile apart in the same mountain valley."--Jacket.
Pathways of PowerBuilding an Anthropology of the Modern World
"Pathways of Power" published on by University of California Press.
Modification in the Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Internet Addiction
The Internet is a new technology that has impacted the world and provided many benefits to its users. At the same time the Internet has had negative ramifications. Some people are becoming preoccupied with the Internet, are unable to control their use, and are jeopardizing employment and relationships. The concept of "Internet addiction" has been proposed as an explanation for uncontrollable, damaging use of this technology. Symptoms of excessive…
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
Introduction: Civilization and Progress
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. Each is an aspect of the other. Anthropologists who use, or misuse, words such as &s;acculturation&s; beg this basic question. For the major mode of acculturation, the direct shaping of one culture by another through which civilization develops, has been conquest. Civilization, then, has evolved in two major phases, ancient and modern. The ancient states of China, Egypt, Babylonia…
Job and the Trickster
The Book of Job, generated by an archaic civilization, a society no longer primitive, symbolizes the converse of the primitive notion of the trickster and also represents the origin of our own conceptions of good and evil. It is, so to speak, an ideological pillar of our civilization. The Book of Job, like Plato&s;s Republic which was composed at roughly the same time, is bent upon denying human ambivalence and social ambiguity. Thus Job and Plat…
The Uses of the Primitive
The concept of the primitive is as old as civilization because civilized men have always and everywhere been compelled by the conditions of their existence to try to understand their roots and human possibilities. Primitive society may be regarded as a system in equilibrium, spinning kaleidoscopically on its axis but at a relatively fixed point. The search for the primitive is, then, as old as civilization. It is the search for the Utopia of the …
Epilogue
Kierkegaard, the revolutionary Christian, the most immediate and intimate of critics, defines the present age as the negative unity of the negative reciprocity of all individuals. The God-intoxicated conservatives believe that a society which permits its members fully to express the ambiguity of despair and faith while exploring the limits of human association does not need to bother very much about culture in the ordinary use of the term, that i…
Schizophrenia and Civilization
Schizophrenia is the most prevalent, malignant and intractable of mental illnesses; officially designated schizophrenics occupy one quarter of all hospital beds in the United States, approximately 250,000. One must recognize that the mental health establishment, which the National Institute represents, assumes that the expenditure of vast sums of money on so-called research will eventually reveal the "causes of mental illness" — that money in res…
The Politics of Field Work
In August of 1959, the author flew down from Rome to Kano, across the Mediterranean and Saharan Seas, from the most permanent and vulgar of European cities to the most typical and enduring of Hausa cities. For centuries the town had been the port of entry for the caravans that converged upon it from the trans-Saharan routes. Kano had been one of the original seven Hausa states, founded, according to the chronicle that bears the city&s;s name, in …
The Rule of Law Versus the Order of Custom
This chapter distinguishes the rule of law from the authority of custom. The laws of marriage, to illustrate Bohannan&s;s argument with the sort of concrete example his definition lacks, are not synonymous with the institution of marriage. They reinforce certain rights and obligations while neglecting others. Moreover, they subject partners defined as truant to intervention by an external, impersonal agency whose decisions are sanctioned by the p…
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