Suchergebnisse

"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

Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka. However, it does not merely document the remarkable successes in business enterprise and in the acquisition of Western-educated professional skills which were achieved by families from the Karava caste during the last two centuries; their advances, and the social and political struggles which accompanied this process, are employed as a window through which a survey of social change in Sri Lanka during the last four hundred years is conducted. The interest of the book extends beyond the many fascinating social incidents, historical trends and channels of elite formation that are described within its pages to a series of controlled comparisons which reveal the factors responsible for the formation of the Karava elite. Thus the book extends the methodological frontiers of the social history of the region. It emphasizes the significance of the patterns of caste discrimination and caste interaction in Sri Lankan politics, and reveals how these patterns were central to the incentives and opportunities which powered the advances of the Karava families