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Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality

By James G. Carrier , Don Kalb

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107087414, 9781107087415
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1182602 bytes)
Pages
248\248
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-07 22:48:05

Description

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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