Elites, ethnographic issues / edited by George E. Marcus.

Contributor(s): Marcus, George E | School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Language: English Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1983.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
"Elite" as a concept, theory, and research tradition -- A review of ethnographic research on elites in complex societies -- Elite communities and institutional orders / George E. Marcus -- Elite theory and the formation of elites among the Bura intellectuals of Nigeria / Ronald Cohen -- The ordered world of the university administrator / F.G. Bailey -- Being and doing / Carol J. Greenhouse -- The reproduction of the ruling class in Latifundist, Sicily, 1860-1920 / Jane and Peter Schneider -- The dissolution of the ruling class in twentieth-century Sicily / Peter and Jane Schneider -- Oligopolistic competion among state elites in princely India / Lloyd D. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- The fiduciary role in American family dynasties and their institutional legacy / George E. Marcus -- Elites versus the state / Edward C. Hansen and Timothy C. Parrish.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and index.

"Elite" as a concept, theory, and research tradition -- A review of ethnographic research on elites in complex societies -- Elite communities and institutional orders / George E. Marcus -- Elite theory and the formation of elites among the Bura intellectuals of Nigeria / Ronald Cohen -- The ordered world of the university administrator / F.G. Bailey -- Being and doing / Carol J. Greenhouse -- The reproduction of the ruling class in Latifundist, Sicily, 1860-1920 / Jane and Peter Schneider -- The dissolution of the ruling class in twentieth-century Sicily / Peter and Jane Schneider -- Oligopolistic competion among state elites in princely India / Lloyd D. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- The fiduciary role in American family dynasties and their institutional legacy / George E. Marcus -- Elites versus the state / Edward C. Hansen and Timothy C. Parrish.

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