Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Economic anthropology -- Case studies. Social classes -- Case studies. Social stratification -- Case studies. Social structure -- Case studies. Economic anthropology. Social classes. Social stratification. Social structure. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10137115

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Other authors / contributors:	Carrier, James G., editor. Kalb, Don, 1959- editor.
ISBN:	9781107087415 1107087414
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Rising social, political and economic inequality has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. 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.

Table of Contents:

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

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