The Anthropology of Elites [electronic resource] : Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction /
Abbink, J.editor.
Salverda, T.editor.
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Elite Power and the Cultural Politics of Elites                                                                                                      ""; ""1 Researching Elites: Old and New Perspectives                                                     ""; ""2 Land, Historicity, and Lifestyle: Capital and Its Conversions among the Gentry in Poland                                                                                                 ""
""3 Continuity and Change as Two Identifying Principles amongst Nepalese Nobility                                                                                      """"4 Beyond Wealth and Pleasant Posture: Exploring Elite Competition in the Patroage Democracy of Indonesia                                                                                                               ""; ""5 In Defense: Elite Power                                ""; ""6 Pupillage: The Shaping of a Professional Elite                                                       ""
""7 Becoming Elite: Exclusion, Excellence, and Collective Identity in Irelandâ€?s Top Fee-Paying Schools                                                                                                           """"8 Financial Professionals as a Global Elite                                                  ""; ""9 Management Consultants at Work with Clients: Maintenance and Contestation of Elite Status                                                                                                  ""
""10 Money Relations, Ideology, and the Formation of a Cosmopolitan Elite at the Frontier of Transnational Capitalism: An Ethnographic Study of African Finance Professionals in Johannesburg France Bourgouin                                                                                                                                                                                                                   """"Notes on Contributors                            ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Economic sociology.
Anthropology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology of Culture.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Anthropology.