Where Saints Show Respect

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Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

2 049 kr

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Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect – sometimes fearful, but often playful or pious – for those values and their enforcers. State and Church misconstrue these values as vestiges of a society morally damned and left behind in a pagan past. This study draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore a strikingly different Sicily from the self-congratulatory version of government and religious leaders, where a seemingly obscure set of rural practices offers a critical perspective on modernity itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-02-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Antal sidor280
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836953364

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
Organiserad brottslighet inom Samhalle och politik

“This is a book by a scholar enormously well-read in anthropological thought, capable of achieving a critical distance from normative readings that other disciplines have afforded the mafia by adopting an ethnographic approach to the utmost. Thanks to this Palumbian anthropology, we come to a profound understanding of the specific influences of the mafia on religion.” • Giovanni Pizza, ANUAC 9 (2) (2020): 183-185.