Raccomandazione : : Clientelism and Connections in Italy / / Dorothy Louise Zinn.
The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the pra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Anthropology in Translation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione
- Chapter 1 The Ethnographic Setting
- Chapter 2 Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations
- Chapter 3 Toward a Poetics of Patronage
- Chapter 4 Raccomandazione, Tangente, and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of Genres
- Chapter 5 Raccomandazione, Class Relations, and the Southern Question
- Chapter 6 Employing the “Little Shove” Raccomandazione and Work
- Chapter 7 “We’re Not Uganda, but Almost” Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity
- Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order
- Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index