Tom Kruse: >Another must read for ANY student of capitalism, history, anthropology >(etc.) is Eric Wolf's _Europe and the People Without History. This reminds me to mention Wolf has a brand-new book out. Titled "Envisioning Power", it is a comparative study of Kwakiutl, Aztec and Nazi society from the standpoint of how ruling classes (or groups) rule. The Aztec chapter focuses on the role of human sacrifice, a subject that has come up repeatedly on PEN-L. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
