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The volume challenges dominant narratives of progress with a rich range of investigations of local struggles from the Global south which are based on original ethnographic research. The chapters take a point of departure in ideas and concepts developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf in 'Europe and the People Without History', and emphasize the relevance and usefulness of applying Wolf to contemporary contexts. As such, the collection contributes to knowledge of dynamic relationships between local agency in the Global south, and broader political and economic processes that make 'people without history.' This shows global power as both excluding local groups at the same time as conditioning local struggles and the forms that social organization takes. Contributors are: Paul Stacey, Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba, Marylynn Steckley, Ismael Garcia Colon, Inge-Merete Hougaard, Gustavo S. Azenha, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Tirza van Bruggen, and Masami Tsujita

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Civilization and Progress -- 2 The Politics of Field Work -- 3 Anthropology in Question -- 4 The Search for the Primitive -- 5 Plato and the Definition of the Primitive -- 6 The Uses of the Primitive -- 7 Schizophrenia and Civilization -- 8 The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom -- 9 Job and the Trickster -- 10 The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: the Myth of Structuralism -- 11 What History Is -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the 1999 Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Homo economicus: A Maale mystery -- 2. Epochal structures I: Reconstructing historical materialism -- 3. Epochal structures II: The anatomy of Maale production -- 4. History at one point in time: "Working together" in Bola, 1975 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Predicting the past from the future -- Bibliography* -- Index