Anthropologies of Class

Power, Practice, and Inequality

Bibliographic Data

ID19912980
EditorsJames G Carrier, Don Kalb
Year2015
Publication date2015-02-05
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAnthropologies of Class (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316095867
OpenAlexW571713731
Open LibraryOL34737119M
ISBN9781316095867
LanguageEN
Citations received42

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

Class (philosophy) · Class conflict · Context (archaeology) · Development economics · Economics · Epistemology · Inequality · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social class · Social inequality · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Case studies · Economic anthropology · Equality · Social classes · Social mobility · Social stratification · Social structure

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