Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World Book

	Foreword: Culture and Power in the Writings of Eric R. Wolf
	Preface
	Introduction: An Intellectual Autobiography	1
Pt. I	Anthropology	11
1	American Anthropologists and American Society	13
2	Kroeber Revisited	23
3	Remarks on The People of Puerto Rico	38
4	On Fieldwork and Theory	49
5	Anthropology among the Powers	63
Pt. II	Connections	81
6	Building the Nation	83
7	The Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam	100
8	Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico	124
9	The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol	139
10	Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java	147
11	The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community	160
12	Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies	166
13	Ethnicity and Nationhood	184
Pt. III	Peasants	191
14	Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion	193
15	Specific Aspects of Plantation Systems in the New World: Community Subcultures and Social Classes	215
16	Peasants and Revolution	230
17	Phases of Rural Protest in Latin America	241
18	Is the "Peasantry" a Class?	252
19	On Peasant Rent	260
20	The Second Serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America	272
21	Peasant Nationalism in an Alpine Valley	289
Pt. IV	Concepts	305
22	Culture: Panacea or Problem?	307
23	Inventing Society	320
24	The Mills of Inequality: A Marxian Approach	335
25	Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World	353
26	Ideas and Power	370
27	Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions	383
28	Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People	398
	References	413
	Index	447