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Title Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality / edited by James G. Carrier and Don Kalb
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-223) and index
Notes Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page (viewed October 21, 2022)
SUBJECT Constantinus & Mauritius Perugia gnd
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject Social classes.
Anthropology.
social classes.
anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Anthropology
Social classes
Neoliberalismus
Sozialanthropologie
Soziale Schichtung
Soziale Ungleichheit
Soziale Klasse
Arbeiterklasse
Mittelstand
Indigenismus
Theoriendynamik
Sociala klasser.
Jämlikhet.
Social rörlighet.
Brasilien
Indien
Spanien
Irland
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Carrier, James G., editor.
Kalb, Don, 1959- editor.
ISBN 9781316095867
131609586X
9781316248492
1316248496