Where Saints Show Respect

Berardino Palumbo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Messina. In addition to co-editing two series of anthropological monographs, he is the author of several books and articles on the anthropology of Italy, and Sicily in particular.

• AcknowledgementsForewordMichael HerzfeldChapter 1. Thirty Years LaterChapter 2. Bowing to PowerChapter 3. FireworksChapter 4. Biopolitics the Sicilian WayConclusionAfterwordJane Schneider and Peter SchneiderReferencesIndex

“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.