Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588252 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316095867 131609586X 9781316248492 1316248496 131625416X 9781316254165 1316250385 9781316250389 1316252272 9781316252277 1316235254 9781316235256 9781107087415 1107087414 9781107455962 1107455960 |