In Chile's Political Culture And Parties: An Anthropological Explanation, Larissa Lomnitz and Ana Melnick collaborate to examine Chile's political culture in terms of Chileans functioning within social categories and rules which they called the "grammar" of the national Chilean culture. They argue that political parties in Chile are a conglomeration of horizontal networks of friends and that class is succinctly established within Chile's social fabric and defined by a mixture of variables (including an individual's position in the economy, social network, religious beliefs, and life-style choices). Chile's Political Culture And Parties is a seminal, scholarly, original, and highly recommended reading for students of Chile's history, politics, and contemporary culture.