Anthropologies of class : power, practice and inequality / edited by James G. Carrier, Don Kalb.

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9781316095867
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HT621 .A58 2015eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-223) and index.

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.