The Anthropology of Elites
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.
1st ed. 2013
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 30.11.2015
ISBN 9781349450602
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
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.