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