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Where saints show respect : mafia, modernity, and rituals of power / Berardino Palumbo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palumbo, Berardino, 1961- author.
- Series:
- New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations Series
- New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations Series ; v.14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Italy--Sicily--History.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology--Italy--Sicily.
- Ethnology.
- Crime.
- Mafia--Italy--Sicily--History.
- Mafia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Where Saints Show Respect
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Thirty Years Later
- Chapter 2. Bowing to Power
- Chapter 3. Fireworks
- Chapter 4. Biopolitics the Sicilian Way
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781836953371 (electronic bk.)
- 1836953372 (electronic bk.)
- 1-83695-338-0
- OCLC:
- 1568062173
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