Raccomandazione : clientelism and connections in Italy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zinn, Dorothy Louise (Author, Translator)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the Italian.
Published:	New York : Berghahn, 2019.
Edition:	English-language edition.
Series:	European anthropology in translation ; v. 7.
Subjects:	Patron and client > Italy, Southern. Patronage, Political > Italy, Southern. Italy, Southern > Politics and government. Italy, Southern > Social conditions. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the art of raccomandazione
The ethnographic setting
Patronage/clientelism : some theoretical considerations
Towards a poetics of patronage
Raccomandazione, tangente and mafia : an "amoral" family of genres
Raccomandazione, class relations and the southern question
Employing the 'little shove' : raccomandazione and work
"We're not Uganda, but almost" : raccomandazione and southern identity
Conclusion : raccomandazione and the bourgeois-liberal world order
Epilogue : what happened when they read what I wrote : Mediterranean clientelism and corruption revisited.