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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eric Wolf

1923 - 1999

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Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 – March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Wolf has received more than 223,239 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eric Wolf is the 71st most popular anthropologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 807th most popular biography from Austria (down from 747th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Eric Wolf ranks 71 out of 69. Before him are Max Gluckman, Gayle Rubin, Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, Ashley Montagu, Robert Lowie, and Fiona Graham. After him are Julio Caro Baroja, Marcellin Boule, Dmitry Anuchin, Françoise Héritier, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Carleton S. Coon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Eric Wolf ranks 300. Before him are Cyril M. Kornbluth, Roy Dotrice, Gösta Löfgren, Bernard Clavel, Aleksandra Chudina, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. After him are N. T. Rama Rao, Ladislav Fuks, Buddy DeFranco, Palden Thondup Namgyal, Giorgio Albertazzi, and Eugénio de Andrade. Among people deceased in 1999, Eric Wolf ranks 186. Before him are Lester Bowie, Teuvo Aura, Yury Malyshev, Alain Peyrefitte, João Cabral de Melo Neto, and Nicholas Metropolis. After him are Fritzi Burger, Henry Carlsson, Jehan Buhan, Faith Domergue, Joshua Nkomo, and Leonid Sedov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Eric Wolf ranks 807 out of 1,237. Before him are Rudolph Schindler (1887), Pál Kitaibel (1757), Heinz-Christian Strache (1969), Johann Nepomuk David (1895), Hilda Geiringer (1893), and Reinhard Furrer (1940). After him are Walter Zeman (1927), Franz West (1947), Leopold Lindtberg (1902), Fritzi Burger (1910), Franz Brunner (1913), and Kurt Jara (1950).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Austria

Among anthropologists born in Austria, Eric Wolf ranks 2. Before him are Robert Lowie (1883). After him are Grete Mostny (1914).

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