The Anthropology of Elites

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Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

ISBN: 1137290544
ISBN 13: 9781137290540
Herausgeber: J Abbink/T Salverda
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: vii, 256 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.12.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

This book makes a significant new contribution to the study of elites, which is of clear and growing importance and yet is still relatively underdeveloped in the social sciencesOn the basis of a series of very interesting and original case studies, this book explores the potential of an anthropological approach to elites and addresses anew the challenges of research and theoretical interpretation that this social stratum evokesA book with original, well-balanced case studies, including professional and transnational (financial) elites

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

FRANCE BOURGOUIN Project Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies ALINE COURTOIS PhD candidate at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France and at University College Dublin, Ireland LONGINA JAKUBOWSKA Anthropology Fellow at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands STEFANIE LOTTER Anthropologist and curator HORACIO ORTIZ Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech, Paris, France FERNANDA PIRIE University Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK JUSTINE ROGERS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Business School at the University of Sydney, Australia HUIBERT SCHIJF Sociologist with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he holds a position at the Department of Sociology/Anthropology DEASY SIMANDJUNTAK Post-doctoral Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) IRENE SKOVGAARD SMITH Research Consultant at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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