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Eric Robert Wolf  

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  • Eric Robert Wolf spent his professional career defining and expanding issues such as peasant society, state formation, development of capitalism, and colonial expansion. He worked extensively to unite political anthropology, economic anthropology, and historical sociology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Wolf, Eric Robert (1923–1999)]

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