The anthropological study of class and consciousness / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE. Introduction; WHY STUDY CLASS?; THE INVISIBILITY OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES; HOW CAN WE MAKE CLASS VISIBLE?; THE ROLE OF ETHNOGRAPHY; THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLASS; CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES CITED; TWO. Thinking Political Communities; INTRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION AS TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESS; THE EASTERN STEPPE AND XIONGNU EMERGENCE; XIONGNU STYLES OF STRATIFICATION; EXPLAINING XIONGNU POLITICS; NEGOTIATING POLITICAL COMMUNITY; XIONGNU RULERS AND STEPPE BELIEF SYSTEMS.

MATERIAL SYMBOLS OF COMMONALITY AND DIVISIONBENEFITS OF AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY; POLITICS, PASTORALISM, AND SOCIAL RE-SCALING; STATECRAFT AND SUSTAINABILITY; THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF MOBILITY; THE UNFOLDING OF A XIONGNU POLITICS OF THOUGHT; REFERENCES CITED; THREE. Dividing Land and Creating Class; INTRODUCTION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASS IN ICELAND; WHAT THE HISTORICAL SOURCES DO NOT TELL US; LAND CLAIM AND DIVISION PATTERNS IN THE VIKING AGE; SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TENANT CLASS; DIVIDING LAND AND MAKING CLASS.

THE LIMITATIONS OF SETTLEMENT PATTERN ANALYSES AND THE STUDY OF CLASSREFERENCES CITED; FOUR. Fried's Evolutionary Model, Social Stratification, and the Nuosu in Southwest China; INTRODUCTION; THE TWO CASES: NINGLANG AND LEIBO IN XIAO LIANGSHAN; Ninglang: A Multiethnic Zone; Leibo: Nuosu-Han Zone of Contention; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; FIVE. Class and Consciousness in the "Antiglobal" South; INTRODUCTION: WORLDVIEW AND THE ANTICAPITALIST MOVEMENT; ENERGETICS AND "WEALTH CREATION": EXPOSING THE FALSE WORLDVIEW OF THE GLOBAL ELITE.

REAL WEALTH AND VIRTUAL WEALTH: A SOURCE OF CONCEPTUAL CONFUSIONTHE PHANTOM GROWTH OF VIRTUAL WEALTH; "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION": THE PRODUCTION OF REAL WEALTH; THE CLOSED-SYSTEM VIEW: DEPENDENCY THEORY, NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS, AND THE IMAGE OF LIMITED GOOD; EXPANDING PIES AND FIXED PIES: AN ETHNOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY AND MUTUAL SELF-RESTRAINT; CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AS A CLOSED SYSTEM; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SIX. Crash, Collapse, and Catastrophe in Postindustrial North America; THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT-DISASTER SCENARIOS; THE DATA; THE CRASH; CATASTROPHE-THE 2012ERS.

COLLAPSE-PEAK OILCOLLAPSE-THE NWO; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SEVEN. Class and Consciousness; INTRODUCTION; THEORY AND METHODS; THE COLONIAL PERIOD; FEDERALIST ERA; THE FRONTIER PERIOD; THE CIVIL WAR ERA; THE POPULIST ERA; DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL ERA; POST-WWII ERA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; EIGHT. Immigrant Heterogeneity and Class Consciousness in New Rural US Destinations; INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL CLASS; DRIVING WHILE BROWN: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; CLUTTERED YARDS AND CLIPPED GOLF COURSES: CONSUMPTION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCUSSION; NOTES.

Annotation Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, this book offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology.

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