By Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore
Drawing on a various, comparative ethnographic literature, this new quantity examines the intimate areas and cultural practices of these elites who occupy positions of strength and authority throughout numerous diverse settings.
Using ethnographic case stories from a variety of geographical components, together with Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North the United States and Africa, the members discover the internal worlds of that means and perform that outline and maintain elite identities. in addition they offer insights into the cultural mechanisms that preserve elite prestige, and into the complicated ways in which elite teams relate to, and are embedded inside, wider social and ancient tactics.
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Virtual in two main senses: the shift from material production (agriculture and manufacturing) to information services and the corresponding detachment of the circulation of money from production and trade. This in turn is an aspect of the latest stage of mechanisation, the communications revolution culminating in the 1990s (Hart 2001a). The answer, of course, is yes. Long-distance trade in information services requires a substantial technical infrastructure. The internet has its origins in scientific collaboration between America and Europe during the Cold War.
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