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From clans to co-ops : confiscated Mafia land in Sicily /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Series:Human economy ; volume 4.
Subjects:
Cooperative societies > Italy > Sicily.
Agriculture, Cooperative > Italy > Sicily.
Mafia > Italy > Sicily.
Land use > Italy > Sicily.
Agriculture, Cooperative.
Cooperative societies.
Land use.
Mafia.
Italy > Sicily.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural.
Political Science > Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Problems with cooperatives
  • The anthropology of co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian lens
  • Cooperatives and the historical anti-Mafia movement
  • Worldviews of labour: legality and food ideologies
  • The limits of 'bad kinship': Sicilian anti-Mafia families
  • The use of gossip: setting cooperative boundaries
  • 'Wage is male-but land is a woman'
  • Community troubles: cooperative conundrum
  • Divided by land: Mafia and anti-Mafia proximity
  • Conclusion. the private life of political cooperativism.