Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion

Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 57 (1955): 452–70. Eric R. Wolf is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, Lehman College. He has a longstanding interest in the study of peasantry, with special reference to Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. He is the author of Sons of the Shaking Earth, Anthropology, Peasants, and Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century.