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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.
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"Popular insurgency around the world has recently put the power of elites in the limelight. This fascinating collection of case studies reveals their insecurity as well as the strength that others often project onto them. Of special interest is the contrast between global financial elites, floating above national laws with impunity and more traditional elites embedded in local society." Keith Hart, codirector, Human Economy Program, University of Pretoria Co-Director Human Economy Program
"It is increasingly obvious that anthropological approaches substantially enrich the study of elites. This fine collection of essays contributes further to this trend both from a comparative and analytical standpoint." - Jean-Pascal Daloz, Research Professor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Strasbourg
About the authors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Anthropology of Elites
Book Subtitle: Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction
Editors: Jon Abbink, Tijo Salverda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290557
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jon Abbink and Tijo Salverda 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29054-0Published: 28 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45060-2Published: 30 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29055-7Published: 28 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 256
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Anthropology