In our ethnographies they are often in the background, as in this photo taken by Jordi Secall in 2003 [see his blog]. But professor MCDONOGH proposed many years ago the study of the good families of Barcelona – the ‘catalan oasis’. Thursday, february 28th, 7pm at Reina de Àfrica (calle Bolivar 10, Vallcarca), debate “Towards an anthropology of catalan elites” with Gary W. McDonogh, organized by GTEEP – GRECS – OACU
- Download a chapter of McDONOGH’s The Good Families of Barcelona. A social history of power in industrial Barcelona, Princeton, 1986, in PDF (spanish) “De la família a la oligarquía” (courtesy: OACU friends!)
- Another brilliant contribution to the study of the elites: Longina JAKUBOWSKA (2012) The straw in the anthropologist’s boots: studying nobility in Poland
- Excellent reportage on how the influx of new global elites is changing the face of Europe on The Guardian webpage [march 2013]