Deborah Puccio-Den is a political anthropologist and senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Originally from Italy, she has conducted more than twenty years of fieldwork on Mafia in Sicily and lectures on the subject at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of two books in French, Masques et dévoilements and Les théâtres de Maures et Chrétiens.

• PrefaceIntroduction. From witchcraft to “mafiacraft”: Shifting paradigmsPart I. Naming the mafiaChapter 1. Does the mafia exist?Chapter 2. The mafia as a plagueChapter 3. How to photograph something that does not exist?Chapter 4. Bearing witnessChapter 5. The unnamable mafiaPart II. Judging the silenceChapter 6. The Falcone methodChapter 7. The Buscetta theoremChapter 8. The Impastato affairChapter 9. The Aiello trialChapter 10. The Provenzano codeConclusion. Invisible things

"This book is brimming with ideas and original turns. The author sets out to follow the work (hence Mafia-craft) required to answer the impossible question of what the Mafia is. Her intimate account of anti-Mafia activities helps to bring out the Mafia's everyday realities for Sicilians. Yet Puccio-Den's ambition also reaches out much further. Revisiting the very notion of Mafia as a problem for the knowledge of social realities, she opens up new perspectives for a political anthropology of silence."

Deborah Puccio-Den is a political anthropologist and senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Originally from Italy, she has conducted more than twenty years of fieldwork on Mafia in Sicily and lectures on the subject at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of two books in French, Masques et dévoilements and Les théâtres de Maures et Chrétiens.

• PrefaceIntroduction. From witchcraft to “mafiacraft”: Shifting paradigmsPart I. Naming the mafiaChapter 1. Does the mafia exist?Chapter 2. The mafia as a plagueChapter 3. How to photograph something that does not exist?Chapter 4. Bearing witnessChapter 5. The unnamable mafiaPart II. Judging the silenceChapter 6. The Falcone methodChapter 7. The Buscetta theoremChapter 8. The Impastato affairChapter 9. The Aiello trialChapter 10. The Provenzano codeConclusion. Invisible things

"This book is brimming with ideas and original turns. The author sets out to follow the work (hence Mafia-craft) required to answer the impossible question of what the Mafia is. Her intimate account of anti-Mafia activities helps to bring out the Mafia's everyday realities for Sicilians. Yet Puccio-Den's ambition also reaches out much further. Revisiting the very notion of Mafia as a problem for the knowledge of social realities, she opens up new perspectives for a political anthropology of silence."

Deborah Puccio-Den is a political anthropologist and senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Originally from Italy, she has conducted more than twenty years of fieldwork on Mafia in Sicily and lectures on the subject at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of two books in French, Masques et dévoilements and Les théâtres de Maures et Chrétiens.

• PrefaceIntroduction. From witchcraft to “mafiacraft”: Shifting paradigmsPart I. Naming the mafiaChapter 1. Does the mafia exist?Chapter 2. The mafia as a plagueChapter 3. How to photograph something that does not exist?Chapter 4. Bearing witnessChapter 5. The unnamable mafiaPart II. Judging the silenceChapter 6. The Falcone methodChapter 7. The Buscetta theoremChapter 8. The Impastato affairChapter 9. The Aiello trialChapter 10. The Provenzano codeConclusion. Invisible things

"This book is brimming with ideas and original turns. The author sets out to follow the work (hence Mafia-craft) required to answer the impossible question of what the Mafia is. Her intimate account of anti-Mafia activities helps to bring out the Mafia's everyday realities for Sicilians. Yet Puccio-Den's ambition also reaches out much further. Revisiting the very notion of Mafia as a problem for the knowledge of social realities, she opens up new perspectives for a political anthropology of silence."