Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: Culture and Power in the Writings of Eric R. Wolf -- Preface -- Introduction: An Intellectual Autobiography -- PART I. ANTHROPOLOGY -- 1. American Anthropologists and American Society -- 2. Kroeber Revisited -- 3. Remarks on The People of Puerto Rico -- 4. On Fieldwork and Theory -- 5. Anthropology among the Powers -- PART II. CONNECTIONS -- 6. Building the Nation -- 7. The Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam -- 8. Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico -- 9. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol -- 10. Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java -- 11. The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community -- 12. Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies -- 13. Ethnicity and Nationhood -- PART III. PEASANTS -- 14. Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion -- 15. Specific Aspects of Plantation Systems in the New World: Community Subcultures and Social Classes -- 16. Peasants and Revolution -- 17. Phases of Rural Protest in Latin America -- 18. Is the "Peasantry" a Class? -- 19. On Peasant Rent -- 20. The Second Serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America -- 21. Peasant Nationalism in an Alpine Valley -- PART IV. CONCEPTS -- 22. Culture: Panacea or Problem? -- 23. Inventing Society -- 24. The Mills of Inequality: A Marxian Approach -- 25. Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World -- 26. Ideas and Power -- 27. Facing Power-Old Insights, New Questions -- 28. Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.