ISBN:
978-1934691335 /Pbk. reprint
,
0-8263-0658-6
,
978-0-8263-0658-6
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 305 Seiten
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [22]
Series Statement:
A _School of American Research Book [22]
Keywords:
Elite Elite, politische
;
Intellektuelle
;
Sozialer Status
;
Soziale Klasse
;
Hegemonie
;
Universität
;
Nigeria
;
Bura
;
USA
;
Indien
Abstract:
This book is a collection of essays focusing on the role that elites play in shaping modern societies. Critiquing the treatment accorded elites as subjects in recent Western social thought, the essays reflect upon past results and explore directions in the investigation of elite groups by anthropologists. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements, George E. Marcus -- I. Introduction -- 1. "Elite" as a Concept, Theory, and Research Tradition, , George E. Marcus -- 2. A Review of Ethnographic Research on Elites in Complex Societies, George E. Marcus -- 3. Elite Communities and Institutional Orders, George E. Marcus -- II. The Papers -- 4. Elite Theory and the Formation of Elites Among the Bura Intellectuals of Nigeria, Ronald Cohen -- 5. The Ordered World of the University Administrator, F.G. Bailey -- 6. Being and Doing: Competing Concepts of Elite Status in an American Suburb, Carol J. Greenhouse -- 7. The Reproduction of the Ruling Class in Latifundist Sicily, 1860-1920, Jane and Peter Schneider -- 8. The Dissolution of the Ruling Class in Twentieth- Century Sicily, Peter and Jane Schneider -- 9. Oligopolistic Competition Among State Elites in Princely India, Lloyd D. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- 10. The Fiduciary Role in American Family Dynasties and Their Institutional Legacy: From the Law of Trusts to Trust in the Establishment, George E. Marcus -- 11. Elites Versus the State: Toward an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Hegemonic Power in Capitalist Society, Edward C. Hansen and Timothy C. Parrish -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 279-298
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