Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power by Palumbo, Berardino

Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781836953364)

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Format: Library Binding
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Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power by Palumbo, Berardino

Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power

$135.00
Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power by Palumbo, Berardino

Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power

$135.00
Format: Library Binding
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Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect - sometimes fearful, but often playful or pious - for those values and their enforcers. State and Church misconstrue these values as vestiges of a society morally damned and left behind in a pagan past. This study draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore a strikingly different Sicily from the self-congratulatory version of government and religious leaders, where a seemingly obscure set of rural practices offers a critical perspective on modernity itself.

Author: Berardino Palumbo
ISBN-10: 1836953364
ISBN-13: 9781836953364
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2026
Pages: 280
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Berardino Palumbo
By Berardino Palumbo
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Berardino Palumbo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Messina. In addition to co-editing two series of anthropological monographs, he is the author of several books and articles on the anthropology of Italy, and Sicily in particular.

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