Cover	1
	Half-Title	2
	Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Contents	6
	Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Elite Power and the Cultural Politics of Elites	9
	1 Researching Elites: Old and New Perspectives	37
	2 Land, Historicity, and Lifestyle: Capital and Its Conversions among the Gentry in Poland	53
	3 Continuity and Change as Two Identifying Principles amongst Nepalese Nobility	78
	4 Beyond Wealth and Pleasant Posture: Exploring Elite Competition in the Patroage Democracy of Indonesia	102
	5 In Defense: Elite Power	120
	6 Pupillage: The Shaping of a Professional Elite	146
	7 Becoming Elite: Exclusion, Excellence, and Collective Identity in Ireland’s Top Fee-Paying Schools	169
	8 Financial Professionals as a Global Elite	190
	9 Management Consultants at Work with Clients: Maintenance and Contestation of Elite Status	211
	10 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	231
	Notes on Contributors	252
	Index	255