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Elite cultures : anthropological perspectives /
The anthropological study of elites has gained increasing prominence with the shift of the anthropological gaze toward issues of power, prestige and status in the societies of anthropologists themselves. However, our understanding of elites is often partial, obscured as it is by the theoretical weak...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | A.S.A. monographs ;
38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.