Eric Wolf

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Eric Wolf

Anthropology

#10

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#20

Historical Rank

#7

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

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#4

Historical Rank

#2

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• Anthropology

Eric Wolf's Degrees

• PhD Anthropology Columbia University

Why Is Eric Wolf Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Eric Robert Wolf was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology. Early life Life in Vienna Wolf was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family. Wolf has described his family as nonreligious, and said that he had little experience of a Jewish community while growing up. His father worked for a corporation and was also a Freemason. Wolf described his mother, who had studied medicine in Russia, as a feminist—"not in terms of declarations, but in terms of her stand on human possibilities." In 1933, his father's work moved the family to Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, where Wolf attended German Gymnasium. He describes his life in the 1920s and 30s in segregated Vienna and then in proletarianizing Czechoslovakia as attuning him early on to questions surrounding class, ethnicity, and political power. The social divisions in Vienna and conflicts in the region in the 1930s influenced Wolf's later scholarly work.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Eric Wolf?

Eric Wolf is affiliated with the following schools:

• Queens College, City University of New York
• Yale University
• University of Michigan
• City, University of London
• University of Chicago
• Columbia University