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Eric Wolf

American anthropologist (1923-1999) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 76

Eric Robert Wolf was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.

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MacArthur Fellows Program1990

Guggenheim Fellowship

Honorary Doctor of the University of Vienna

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