Elite Cultures: Anthropological PerspectivesCris Shore, Stephen L. Nugent Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings. |
Contents
Introduction towards an anthropology of elites | 1 |
World society as an old regime | 22 |
Elites politics and peripheries | 37 |
The powers behind the masks Mexicos political class and social elites at the end of the millennium | 39 |
Gente boa elites in and of Amazonia | 61 |
Elites on the margins mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes | 74 |
The vanishing elite the political and cultural work of nationalist revolution in Sri Lanka | 91 |
The changing nature of elites in Indonesia today | 110 |
Cultural heritage and the role of traditional intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon | 145 |
The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar | 158 |
Revising the past the heritage elite and Native peoples in North America | 173 |
Revolution and royal style problems of postsocialist legitimacy in Laos | 189 |
Elites professionals and networks | 207 |
How far can you go? English Catholic elites and the erosion of ethnic boundaries | 209 |
Presymptomatic networks tracking experts across medical science and the new genetics | 227 |
Anthropologists lions andor foxes An afterword | 249 |
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