'This volume re-establishes class as a fundamental concept in anthropology and shows how inadequate identity-based analyses are. In excellent case studies and theoretical essays, it brilliantly demonstrates that understanding global and local property relations is central to the study of culture, politics and society.' Don Robotham, City University of New York Graduate Center

'Class remains a vital concept for critical social science. This volume shows that anthropologists, traditionally sceptical, have in fact much to contribute both theoretically and ethnographically.' Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

'Anthropologies of Class is a vitally important publication, not only for what it says about class but for what it says about anthropology … Class talk, which for many anthropologists is dated and tiresome, is illustrated in the ethnographic chapters to be relevant and lively, and I hope that the discipline takes note of the argument and evidence here, even if it requires a bit of disciplinary soul-searching in response.' Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database