Transcending the Barriers "My primary interest is to explain something out there that impinges me, and I would sell my soul to the devil if I thought it would help." Eric Wolf, 1987 Eric Wolf's interest into the realm of anthropology emerged upon recognition of the theorist- imposed boundaries, encompassing both theories and subjects, which current and past anthropological scholars had constructed. These boundaries, Wolf believed, were a result of theorist tending to societies and cultures …
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…seen through macroscopic historical lenses. Bibliography Work Cited Abbink, Jan and Hans Vermeulen. History and Culture: Essays on the Work of Eric R. Wolf. Amsterdam, Het Spinhuis, 1992. Kuper, A. The Invention of Primitive Society. London: Routledge, 1988. Friedman, Johnathan. "An Interview with Eric Wolf" Current Anthropology 28 (1987) 107-118 Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History. Los Angeles/Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. ------------ "Culture: Panacea or Problem?" American Antiquity 49(2)1984: 393-400 ------------ "Inventing Society" American Ethnologist 15 (1988): 752-761