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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Cross-cultural studies Études transculturelles |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cris Shore; Stephen Nugent |
ISBN: | 0415277949 9780415277945 0415277957 9780415277952 9780203426197 0203426193 |
OCLC Number: | 48501351 |
Description: | xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: towards an anthropology of elites -- World society as an old regime -- The powers behind the masks: Mexico's political class and social elites at the end of the millennium -- Gente boa: elites in and of Amazonia -- Elites on the margins: mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes -- The vanishing elite: the political and cultural work of nationalist revolution in Sri Lanka -- The changing nature of elites in Indonesia today -- Settlers and their elites in Kenya and Liberia -- Cultural heritage and the role of traditional intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon -- The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar -- Revising the past: the heritage elite and Native peoples in North America -- Revolution and royal style: problems of post-socialist legitimacy in Laos -- How far can you go? English Catholic elites and the erosion of ethnic boundaries -- Pre-symptomatic networks: tracking experts across medical science and the new genetics -- Anthropologists: lions and/or foxes. |
Series Title: | A.S.A. monographs, 38. |
Responsibility: | edited by Cris Shore and Stephen Nugent. |
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Abstract:
What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance.
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