Raccomandazione: Clientelism and Connections in Italy

Dorothy Louise Zinn

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy

Dorothy Louise Zinn

Volume 7 in the series European Anthropology in Translation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201987

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About this book

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 practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.

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Dorothy Louise Zinn is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her recent works include Migrants as Metaphor (2018) and The Public Value of Anthropology (edited with E. Tauber, 2015). She has also published annotated translations of two monographs by Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, The Land of Remorse (2005) and Magic: A Theory from the South (2015).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the English Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxii
Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Ethnographic Setting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2 Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3 Toward a Poetics of Patronage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 4 Raccomandazione, Tangente, and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of Genres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 5 Raccomandazione, Class Relations, and the Southern Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter 6 Employing the “Little Shove” Raccomandazione and Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7 “We’re Not Uganda, but Almost” Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 278
Keywords: Patrongage-clientelism; Patronage; Corruption; Southern Italy; Basilicata

eBook

Published: March 27, 2019
ISBN: 9781789201987