Elites: ethnographic issues

In: School of American Research advanced seminar series

Abstract

"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 competition 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