The Anthropology of Elites ― Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.

FRANCE BOURGOUIN Project Researcher at the Danish Institute for International StudiesALINE COURTOIS PhD candidate at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France and at University College Dublin, IrelandLONGINA JAKUBOWSKA Anthropology Fellow at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsSTEFANIE LOTTER Anthropologist and curator HORACIO ORTIZ Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech, Paris, FranceFERNANDA PIRIE University Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UKJUSTINE ROGERS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Business School at the University of Sydney, AustraliaHUIBERT SCHIJF Sociologist with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he holds a position at the Department of Sociology/AnthropologyDEASY SIMANDJUNTAK Post-doctoral Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)IRENE SKOVGAARD SMITH Research Consultant at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark