Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality

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Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality

Title remainder

power, practice and inequality

Statement of responsibility

edited by James G. Carrier, Don Kalb

Contributor

• Carrier, James G.
• Kalb, Don, 1959-

Editor

• Kalb, Don, 1959-
• Carrier, James G.

Subject

• Economic anthropology -- Case studies
• Social classes -- Case studies
• Social stratification -- Case studies
• Social structure -- Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these discussions, this book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people's attempts to deal with it. Highly topical, it situates class within the context of the current economic crisis, integrating elements from today into the discussion of an earlier agenda. Using cases from North and South America, Western Europe and South Asia, it shows the - sometimes surprising - forms that class can take, as well as the various effects it has on people's lives and societies.--

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks