Elite cultures : anthropological perspectives

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Introduction: towards an anthropology of elites......Page 14
World society as an old regime......Page 35
Elites, politics and peripheries......Page 50
The powers behind the masks: Mexico\'s political class and social elites at the end of the millennium......Page 52
Gente boa: elites in and of Amazonia......Page 74
Elites on the margins: mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes......Page 87
The vanishing elite: the political and cultural work of nationalist revolution in Sri Lanka......Page 104
The changing nature of elites in Indonesia today......Page 123
Elites, hegemony and tradition......Page 140
Settlers and their elites in Kenya and Liberia......Page 142
Cultural heritage and the role of traditional intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon......Page 158
The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar......Page 171
Revising the past: the heritage elite and Native peoples in North America......Page 186
Revolution and royal style: problems of post-socialist legitimacy in Laos......Page 202
Elites, professionals and networks......Page 220
How far can you go? English Catholic elites and the erosion of ethnic boundaries......Page 222
Pre-symptomatic networks: tracking experts across medical science and the new genetics......Page 240
Anthropologists: lions and/or foxes. An afterword......Page 262
Index......Page 268