The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Introduction -- WHY STUDY CLASS? -- THE INVISIBILITY OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES -- HOW CAN WE MAKE CLASS VISIBLE? -- THE ROLE OF ETHNOGRAPHY -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLASS -- CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- TWO. Thinking Political Communities -- INTRODUCTION -- STRATIFICATION AS TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESS -- THE EASTERN STEPPE AND XIONGNU EMERGENCE -- XIONGNU STYLES OF STRATIFICATION -- EXPLAINING XIONGNU POLITICS -- NEGOTIATING POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- XIONGNU RULERS AND STEPPE BELIEF SYSTEMS -- MATERIAL SYMBOLS OF COMMONALITY AND DIVISION -- BENEFITS OF AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY -- POLITICS, PASTORALISM, AND SOCIAL RE-SCALING -- STATECRAFT AND SUSTAINABILITY -- THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF MOBILITY -- THE UNFOLDING OF A XIONGNU POLITICS OF THOUGHT -- REFERENCES CITED -- THREE. Dividing Land and Creating Class -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASS IN ICELAND -- WHAT THE HISTORICAL SOURCES DO NOT TELL US -- LAND CLAIM AND DIVISION PATTERNS IN THE VIKING AGE -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TENANT CLASS -- DIVIDING LAND AND MAKING CLASS -- THE LIMITATIONS OF SETTLEMENT PATTERN ANALYSES AND THE STUDY OF CLASS -- REFERENCES CITED -- FOUR. Fried's Evolutionary Model, Social Stratification, and the Nuosu in Southwest China -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TWO CASES: NINGLANG AND LEIBO IN XIAO LIANGSHAN -- Ninglang: A Multiethnic Zone -- Leibo: Nuosu-Han Zone of Contention -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- FIVE. Class and Consciousness in the "Antiglobal" South -- INTRODUCTION: WORLDVIEW AND THE ANTICAPITALIST MOVEMENT -- ENERGETICS AND "WEALTH CREATION": EXPOSING THE FALSE WORLDVIEW OF THE GLOBAL ELITE -- REAL WEALTH AND VIRTUAL WEALTH: A SOURCE OF CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION.

THE PHANTOM GROWTH OF VIRTUAL WEALTH -- "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION": THE PRODUCTION OF REAL WEALTH -- THE CLOSED-SYSTEM VIEW: DEPENDENCY THEORY, NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS, AND THE IMAGE OF LIMITED GOOD -- EXPANDING PIES AND FIXED PIES: AN ETHNOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY AND MUTUAL SELF-RESTRAINT -- CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AS A CLOSED SYSTEM -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- SIX. Crash, Collapse, and Catastrophe in Postindustrial North America -- THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT-DISASTER SCENARIOS -- THE DATA -- THE CRASH -- CATASTROPHE-THE 2012ERS -- COLLAPSE-PEAK OIL -- COLLAPSE-THE NWO -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- SEVEN. Class and Consciousness -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY AND METHODS -- THE COLONIAL PERIOD -- FEDERALIST ERA -- THE FRONTIER PERIOD -- THE CIVIL WAR ERA -- THE POPULIST ERA -- DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL ERA -- POST-WWII ERA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- EIGHT. Immigrant Heterogeneity and Class Consciousness in New Rural US Destinations -- INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL CLASS -- DRIVING WHILE BROWN: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS -- CLUTTERED YARDS AND CLIPPED GOLF COURSES: CONSUMPTION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- NINE. Class Consciousness in a Complicated Setting -- INTRODUCTION -- FOUR LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION IN THE ANALYSIS OF INEQUALITY -- FROM RACE TO CLASS ON THE US-MEXICO BORDER: A REGIONAL HISTORY IN TWO NATIONS -- CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION -- The Ethnographic Setting -- Did Consciousness of Class Emerge in This Discussion? -- The Salience of the Poor Mexican Immigrant in Discussing Class -- Comparisons to and Interactions with Mexico -- Consciousness of Transnational Class Relations -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- TEN. Difference and Dispossession -- INTRODUCTION -- DISPOSSESSION AND DIFFERENCE.

"A FEDERATION OF LOCALS": DIVISION AND DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE UAW -- "A TROJAN HORSE IN OUR MIDST" -- INSECURITY AND VULNERABILITY AT SATURN -- UNMAKING BOUNDARIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- ELEVEN. Do Hair and Class Gel? -- INTRODUCTION -- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AVEDA IDEOLOGY -- ARE THEY JUST WALKING HEADS WITH WALLETS? -- THE EXPERTS STRUGGLE TO BE MORE THAN JUST SERVICE-SECTOR EMPLOYEES -- CLASS AND STATUS: REFLECTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- TWELVE. Dreams, Illusions, and Realities -- REFERENCES CITED -- Contributors -- Index.

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