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“Absorbing and important [Santoro] builds a convincing and subtly argued case for why we need to treat the Mafia as a type of politics. […An] essential contribution.”
David Nelken, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia

“Santoro takes us closer to the human side of mafiosi than anyone. As he convincingly argues, Mafia style and ceremonial go back to an ancient Mediterranean form of politics, antedating the state and continuing alongside it.”
Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory

“This book is valuable and important: it combines political science, history, sociology and Maussian anthropological observations to develop a novel theory of Mafia as an elementary form of politics. The result is a provocative text for those interested in the many dimensions of organized crime beyond criminal and economic analysis and, crucially, the global North.”
Lucia Michelutti, University College London

Table of Contents
1. Mafia, Politics, and Social Theory: An Introduction

2. The ‘Mafia’ in ‘Mafia Studies’: (Re)constructing a Sociological Object

3. What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia?

4. The Public Life of Mafiosi

5. The Mafioso’s Gift or, Making Sense of an “Offer You Cannot Refuse”

6. Blood, Bund, and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type

7. Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics

Mafia Politics

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 17 December 2021
      ISBN-13 9780745670683
      978-0745670683
      ISBN-10 0745670687
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “Absorbing and important [Santoro] builds a convincing and subtly argued case for why we need to treat the Mafia as a type of politics. […An] essential contribution.”
      David Nelken, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia

      “Santoro takes us closer to the human side of mafiosi than anyone. As he convincingly argues, Mafia style and ceremonial go back to an ancient Mediterranean form of politics, antedating the state and continuing alongside it.”
      Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory

      “This book is valuable and important: it combines political science, history, sociology and Maussian anthropological observations to develop a novel theory of Mafia as an elementary form of politics. The result is a provocative text for those interested in the many dimensions of organized crime beyond criminal and economic analysis and, crucially, the global North.”
      Lucia Michelutti, University College London

      Table of Contents
      1. Mafia, Politics, and Social Theory: An Introduction

      2. The ‘Mafia’ in ‘Mafia Studies’: (Re)constructing a Sociological Object

      3. What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia?

      4. The Public Life of Mafiosi

      5. The Mafioso’s Gift or, Making Sense of an “Offer You Cannot Refuse”

      6. Blood, Bund, and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type

      7. Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics

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