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  • Cited by 35
  • Edited by James G. Carrier, Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Don Kalb, Central European University, Budapest
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781316095867
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316095867
Subjects:
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Anthropology
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Book 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.

Reviews

'This volume re-establishes class as a fundamental concept in anthropology and shows how inadequate identity-based analyses are. In excellent case studies and theoretical essays, it brilliantly demonstrates that understanding global and local property relations is central to the study of culture, politics and society.'

Don Robotham - City University of New York Graduate Center

'Class remains a vital concept for critical social science. This volume shows that anthropologists, traditionally sceptical, have in fact much to contribute both theoretically and ethnographically.'

Chris Hann - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

'Anthropologies of Class is a vitally important publication, not only for what it says about class but for what it says about anthropology … Class talk, which for many anthropologists is dated and tiresome, is illustrated in the ethnographic chapters to be relevant and lively, and I hope that the discipline takes note of the argument and evidence here, even if it requires a bit of disciplinary soul-searching in response.'

Jack David Eller Source: Anthropology Review Database

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