Eric Robert Wolf (1923-1999) was an anthropologist best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.
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Eric Wolf co-authored, with Sidney Mintz, An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthood (Compadrazgo), Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6(4), 1950, the founding anthropological analysis of the institution.
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Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 - March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.
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Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 - March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.
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Soon after, in 1961, Wolf began teaching at the University of Michigan, holding a position as a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY before moving in 1971 to the CUNY Graduate Center, where he spent the remainder of his career.
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