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 …showed first 75 words of 1279 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1279 total…processes, only seen through macroscopic historical lenses. Bibliography 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