Abbink, Jon
The Anthropology of Elites
1. Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Elite Power and the Cultural Politics of Elites
Tijo Salverda, Jon Abbink
2. Researching Elites: Old and New Perspectives
Huibert Schijf
3. Land, Historicity, and Lifestyle: Capital and Its Conversions among the Gentry in Poland
Longina Jakubowska
4. Continuity and Change as Two Identifying Principles amongst Nepalese Nobility
Stefanie Lotter
5. Beyond Wealth and Pleasant Posture: Exploring Elite Competition in the Patronage Democracy of Indonesia
Deasy Simandjuntak
6. In Defense: Elite Power
Tijo Salverda
7. Pupillage: The Shaping of a Professional Elite
Fernanda Pirie, Justine Rogers
8. Becoming Elite: Exclusion, Excellence, and Collective Identity in Ireland’s Top Fee-Paying Schools
Aline Courtois
9. Financial Professionals as a Global Elite
Horacio Ortiz
10. Management Consultants at Work with Clients: Maintenance and Contestation of Elite Status
Irene Skovgaard Smith
11. 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
Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Anthropology
- Editor
- Abbink, Jon
- Salverda, Tijo
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 263 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137290557
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-45060-2