Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

João De Pina-cabral

Introduction

• Succession
• Elites
• Choice
• Production of Successors and a Stake in the Future
• Outline of the Book

Part I. Dynastic Sentiments

George E. Marcus

1. The Deep Legacies of Dynastic Subjectivity: The Resonances of a Famous Family Identity in Private and Public Spheres

• Human Capital and the Shaping of Dynastic Subjectivity
• On the Dynastic Uncanny
• Suzannah Lessard
• Conclusion

Antónia Pedroso de Lima

2. 'How Did I Become a Leader in My Family Firm?' Assets for Succession in Contemporary Lisbon Financial Elites

• Partners and Relatives
• The Family Company and the Formation of Dynastic Families
• The Importance of Bearing the Family Name
• Business Men and Family Managers: Gender Bias among the Portuguese Financial Elite
• Professional Formation and Relational Capital: The Major Legacies in the Successful Formation of Successors
• Concluding Remarks: Articulating Familial Motivations with a Globalized Economy

Sylvia Yanagisako

3. Patriarchal Desire: Law and Sentiments of Succession in Italian Capitalist Families

• Northern Italian Industrial-Capitalist Families
• Succession and Patriarchal Desire
• Impediments as Incitements of Patriarchal Desire
• Italian Inheritance Law
• Daughters and Patriarchal Desire
• The Transformation of Patriarchal Desire
• Patriarchal Desire and Kinship Theory

Part II. Choice and Tradition

Nana Arhin Brempong

4. Elite Succession Among The Matrilineal Akan of Ghana

• Introduction: The Changing Basis of Legitimacy among the Akan
• Hereditary Sucession and The Traditional Elite
• Colonial and Post-colonial Transformations in The System of Traditional Rule
• Modern Asante Rulers
• Conclusion

Carola Lentz

5. 'Tradition' Versus 'Politics': Succession Conflicts in a Chiefdom of North-western Ghana

• Succession to the Nandom Skin: An Overview and Methodological Remarks
• Rules of Inheritance - Lines of Conflict
• The Colonial Creation of 'Traditions of Customary Succession'
• Education and Party Politics: The Succession Conflict of 1958
• 'Tradition' Versus 'Politics': The Succession Conflict of 1985

Christina Toren

6. Making The Chief: An Examination of Why Fijian Chiefs Have To Be Elected

• Chiefship in the Old Days
• Equality and Hierarchy
• Electing the Chief

Part III. House and Heir

Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro

7. Aristocratic Succession in Portugal (From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries)

• Successor, Succession, Immediate Successor
• Entailment Rights
• The Nature of Assets Transferred
• House Codes and Vocabulary
• The Practice of Succession Between 1600 and 1830
• Choice and Succession

José Manuel Sobral

8. Family, Power and Property: Ascendancy and Decline of a Rural Elite

• Concepts and Objectives
• Brief Description of the Local Social Space and its Origins
• Elite, Family, Property and Power
• Concluding Remarks

Part IV. Monopolies and Enclaves

Jean Lave

9. Re-serving Succession in a British Enclave

• Introduction
• The Problem
• Background
• Port Gentry and the Factory House
• The Gaia-Douro Circuit
• Decontextualization Practices
• Conflating Categories, Blurring Boundaries
• The Porto Circuit: Labour, Preparation and Political Struggle
• The British Enclave in Porto
• Social Fractions
• Battles over Institutions, Identities and Futures
• Conclusions: The Dilemmas of Fetishism and Ghosthood

João De Pina-cabral

10. How Do the Macanese Achieve Collective Action?

• Macao and its Eurasian Bureaucratic Elite
• The Privilege
• Translation
• Macao's Elites
• Which Kind of Community?
• Nodules of Community: The Family
• Nodules of Community: Friendship
• Conclusion

Michael Herzfeld

11. Uncanny Success: Some Closing Remarks

Bibliography

Index