Contents : Introduction : the analytic strategies of Eric R. Wolf / Jane Schneider -- Writing a history of power : an examination of Eric R. Wolf's anthropological quest / Ashraf Ghani -- The cultural history of peasantries / William Roseberry -- Capital, ritual, and boundaries of the closed corporate community / James B. Greenberg -- Conacre : a reevaluation of Irish custom / Joan Vincent -- The Prussian junker and their peasants : articulations with kinship of a tribute-taking class / Hermann Rebel -- Prefigurations of the Vietnamese revolution / David Hunt -- From jibaro to crack dealer : confronting the restructuring of capitalism in el barrio / Philippe Bourgois -- The great Bambi war : Tocquevillians versus Keynesians in an upstate New York county / Edward C. Hansen -- In the shadow of the smokestacks : labor and environmental conflict in a company-dominated town / Josiah McC. Heyman -- Risky business : genetic counseling in a shifting world / Rayna Rapp -- From trash to treasure : housewife activists and the environmental justice movement / Harriet G. Rosenberg -- Structuring the consciousness of resistance : state power, regional conflict, and political culture in contemporary Peru / David Nugent -- Notes toward an ethnography of a transforming state : Romania, 1991 / Katherine Verdery -- The timely significance of supernatural mothers or exemplary daughters : the metonymy of identity in history / Pamela Wright -- Being a good Swede : national identity as a cultural battleground / Orvar Löfgren -- Cultural dis-integration and the invention of new peace-fares / Richard G. Fox -- The reconstruction of "tradition" and the defense of the colonial order : British West Africa in the early twentieth century / Michael Adas -- Who were the bushmen? Historical process in the creation of an ethnic construct / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- Amazonian windows to the past : recovering women's histories from the Ecuadorean Upper Amazon / Blanca M. Muratorio -- Ethnic segmentation of the labor market and the "work site animal" : fragmentation and reconstruction of identities within the world system / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro.