Anthropologies of Class

Power, Practice, and Inequality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-05
Mått:160 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107087415

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James G. Carrier is an Associate at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the Departments of Anthropology at Indiana University and Oxford Brookes University. Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher in the Anthropology Department at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

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'This volume re-establishes class as a fundamental concept in anthropology and shows how inadequate identity-based analyses are. In excellent case studies and theoretical essays, it brilliantly demonstrates that understanding global and local property relations is central to the study of culture, politics and society.' Don Robotham, City University of New York Graduate Center

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: class and the new anthropological holism Don Kalb; 1. The concept of class James G. Carrier; 2. Dispossession, disorganization, and the anthropology of labor August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir; 3. The organic intellectual and the production of class in Spain Susana Narotzky; 4. Through a class darkly, but then face to face: praxis through the lens of class Gavin Smith; 5. Walmart, American consumer-citizenship, and the erasure of class Jane Collins; 6. When space draws the line on class Marc Morell; 7. Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala Luisa Steur; 8. Making middle-class families in Calcutta Henrike Donner; 9. Working-class politics in a Brazilian steel town Mao Mollona; 10. Export processing zones and global class formation Patrick Neveling; 11. Global systemic crisis, class, and its representations Jonathan Friedman.