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Wolfian perspective in cultural anthropology
Definition
- Eric Wolf viewed culture as a web of relations, constantly changing over time. Power on the endpoints of the relationships is unequal, so that European merchants, for example, altered political arrangements in West Africa by trading guns for slaves, but relationships are mutually causal, and change extends in both directions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Wolfian Perspective in Cultural Anthropology]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Wolfian_perspective_in_cultural_anthropology
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