A classless anthropology?

In this paper, I argue that anthropology is in the unique position to bring to the fore the way people experience the current much turbulent world in social, economic, and cultural terms while trying to make their lives possible. This process can be fully illuminating by using class analysis not as a static category but as a dynamic dimension embedded in the formation of social relations. In this light, I use my own ethnographic work in Piraeus, Greece, as an example showing that even though agents are seemingly integrated passively into asymmetrical power games, they themselves perceive this process in their own way, informed by their past and present experiences of coercive conditions and class consciousness.