Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis by Eric R. Wolf
Published 1999 · 85,250 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis to read?
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis scores 67 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 70 out of 100
- Dense Marxist and anthropological terminology.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- Long, heavily qualified academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Sustained theoretical argument about ideology and power.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Four extended case studies plus a full theoretical apparatus.
How Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis is regarded
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis holds a literary regard score of 63 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.