11. Uncanny Success: Some Closing Remarks
- 1 January 2000
- book chapter
- Published by OpenEdition
Abstract
What makes an elite? Clearly the question becomes more rather than less complex in the course of reading these chapters, and it may be that the very concept now faces dissolution or at least reorganization. Inasmuch as questions of succession reveal striking similarities as well as differences between groups claiming elite status and those in a politically marginal position, the very notion of elite succession arguably contains the seeds of its own collapse. In the 1960s, especially, anthropol...Keywords
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