Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives Book

	List of plates
	Notes on contributors
1	Introduction: towards an anthropology of elites	1
2	World society as an old regime	22
Pt. I	Elites, politics and peripheries	37
3	The powers behind the masks: Mexico's political class and social elites at the end of the millennium	39
4	Gente boa: elites in and of Amazonia	61
5	Elites on the margins: mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes	74
6	The vanishing elite: the political and cultural work of nationalist revolution in Sri Lanka	91
7	The changing nature of elites in Indonesia today	110
Pt. II	Elites, hegemony and tradition	127
8	Settlers and their elites in Kenya and Liberia	129
9	Cultural heritage and the role of traditional intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon	145
10	The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar	158
11	Revising the past: the heritage elite and Native peoples in North America	173
12	Revolution and royal style: problems of post-socialist legitimacy in Laos	189
Pt. III	Elites, professionals and networks	207
13	How far can you go? English Catholic elites and the erosion of ethnic boundaries	209
14	Pre-symptomatic networks: tracking experts across medical science and the new genetics	227
15	Anthropologists: lions and/or foxes. An afterword	249
	Index	255