Elite cultures [Elektronisk resurs] anthropological perspectives / edited by Cris Shore and Stephen Nugent.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Eliter  (sao)

Makt (samhällsvetenskap)  (sao)

Elite (Social sciences)  -- Cross-cultural studies. (LCSH)

Power (Social sciences)  -- Cross-cultural studies. (LCSH)

Power (Social sciences)  (LCSH)

Elite (Social sciences)  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (local)

Klassifikation

GN492.25 (LCC)

305.5/2 (DDC)

Oabka (kssb/8 (machine generated))