ABSTRACT
This chapter condenses these findings from the previous chapters and looks at the relation between cultural differentiation and class. Results from multiple correspondence analysis are rather clear in that we should not generalise Bourdieu’s claim of a “class habitus” and “class culture” beyond his case study in France. Class differentiation in Nagaland does not go along with an according cultural differentiation but is relatively independent. The latter part of the chapter returns to the question of class production and explores further factors for class distinctions among the Naga youth using decision tree analysis. Specifically, it includes possible influences that are not at the centre of European theories of inequality and thereby aims to provide hypotheses for future research regarding class formation among the Nagas.
