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The Anthropology of Elites

Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

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  1. Jon Abbink
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  2. Tijo Salverda
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Elite Power and the Cultural Politics of Elites

    • Tijo Salverda, Jon Abbink
    Pages 1-28

  3. Researching Elites: Old and New Perspectives

    • Huibert Schijf
    Pages 29-44

  4. Land, Historicity, and Lifestyle: Capital and Its Conversions among the Gentry in Poland

    • Longina Jakubowska
    Pages 45-69

  5. Continuity and Change as Two Identifying Principles amongst Nepalese Nobility

    • Stefanie Lotter
    Pages 71-94

  6. Beyond Wealth and Pleasant Posture: Exploring Elite Competition in the Patronage Democracy of Indonesia

    • Deasy Simandjuntak
    Pages 95-112

  7. In Defense: Elite Power

    • Tijo Salverda
    Pages 113-138

  8. Pupillage: The Shaping of a Professional Elite

    • Fernanda Pirie, Justine Rogers
    Pages 139-161

  9. Becoming Elite: Exclusion, Excellence, and Collective Identity in Ireland’s Top Fee-Paying Schools

    • Aline Courtois
    Pages 163-183

  10. Financial Professionals as a Global Elite

    • Horacio Ortiz
    Pages 185-205

  11. Management Consultants at Work with Clients: Maintenance and Contestation of Elite Status

    • Irene Skovgaard Smith
    Pages 207-226

  12. Money Relations, Ideology, and the Formation of a Cosmopolitan Elite at the Frontier of Transnational Capitalism: An Ethnographic Study of African Finance Professionals in Johannesburg

    • France Bourgouin
    Pages 227-247

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 249-256
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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

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