This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthet
This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthet
The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the cons
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in t
Elites come in many forms and express themselves in an extraordinary variety of ways. This collection reflects just that diversity. From an overview of elites f