Global Inequality : : Anthropological Insights / / Kenneth McGill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: McGill, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.) :; 5 b&w tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; PREFACE --; 1 Introduction: Anthropology and Inequality --; 2 Global Inequality: Historical-Anthropological Perspectives --; 3 The Challenge of Global Inequality --; 4 The Production of Inequality --; 5 Rights, Equality, and the Nation-State --; 6 Welfare and Economic Inequality. --; 7 Resistance and Social Organization in an Unequal World --; 8 Situated Subjects in an Unequal World --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX 1: ADDITIONAL READINGS AND FILMS --; APPENDIX 2: STUDY AND ESSAY QUESTIONS --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442634541; 9783110665956
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442634541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kenneth McGill.

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well. Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.