Textbook on Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily

Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily (Studies in Social Discontinuity Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Schneider, Jane

Social Sciences

Academic Pr

With his groundbreaking Europe and the People Without History, Eric R. Wolf powerfully advanced the project of integrating the disciplines of anthropology and history. In Articulating Hidden Histories, many of those influenced by Wolf―both anthropologists and historians―acknowledge the contribution of this great scholar while extending his work by presenting their own original field and archival research. The "hidden histories" referred to here encompass the histories of economic and political forces capable of dislodging people from their surroundings, of the people thus dislocated, and of the anthropological concepts developed to understand such processes. Within this framework, the contributors explore an extraordinarily wide range of topics, from the invention of tribalism in colonial West Africa to the ecological activism of North American housewives. This collection offers a fitting tribute not only to Eric Wolf's work, but to its continuing influence on the fields of anthropology and history.

Articulating Hidden Histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf

Rapp, Rayna

Biographies & Memoirs

University of California Press

Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.

Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

History

Schneider, Peter T. T.

Europe

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Cookbooks, Food & Wine

McGinnis, Charles

Beverages & Wine

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