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Elite Cultures
Elite Cultures, Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, and Africa, the contributors explore the inner worlds of meaning and practice that define and sustain elite identities, Elite Cultures has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Elite Cultures
  • Written by author Cris Shore
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., April 2002
  • Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, and Africa, the contributors explore the inner worlds of meaning and practice that define and sustain elite identities
  • 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.Using ethnographic case s
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1Introduction: towards an anthropology of elites1
2World society as an old regime22
Pt. IElites, politics and peripheries37
3The powers behind the masks: Mexico's political class and social elites at the end of the millennium39
4Gente boa: elites in and of Amazonia61
5Elites on the margins: mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes74
6The vanishing elite: the political and cultural work of nationalist revolution in Sri Lanka91
7The changing nature of elites in Indonesia today110
Pt. IIElites, hegemony and tradition127
8Settlers and their elites in Kenya and Liberia129
9Cultural heritage and the role of traditional intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon145
10The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar158
11Revising the past: the heritage elite and Native peoples in North America173
12Revolution and royal style: problems of post-socialist legitimacy in Laos189
Pt. IIIElites, professionals and networks207
13How far can you go? English Catholic elites and the erosion of ethnic boundaries209
14Pre-symptomatic networks: tracking experts across medical science and the new genetics227
15Anthropologists: lions and/or foxes. An afterword249
Index255


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