Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence Contributor(s): Puccio-Den, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1912808250 ISBN-13: 9781912808250 Publisher: Hau OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - True Crime |
Dewey: 364.106 |
LCCN: 2019955835 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.25 lbs) 294 pages |
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Publisher Description: "The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I have never seen it." So said Mommo Piromalli, a 'Ndrangheta crime boss, to a journalist in the seventies. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den explores the Mafia's reliance on the force of silence, and undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses on the questions, rather than the answers. For Puccio-Den, the Mafia is not a stable social fact, but a cognitive event shaped by actions of silence. Rather than inquiring about what has previously been written or said, she explores the imaginative power of silence and how it gives consistency to special kinds of social ties that draw their strength from a state of indetermination. What methods might anthropologists use to investigate silence and to understand the life of the denied, the unspeakable, and the unspoken? How do they resist, fight, or capitulate to the strength of words, or to the force of law? In Mafiacraft, Puccio-Den's addresses these questions with a fascinating anthropology of silence that opens up new ground for the study of the world's most famous criminal organization. |
Contributor Bio(s): Puccio-Den, Deborah: - Deborah Puccio-Den is a political anthropologist and senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Originally from Italy, she has conducted more than twenty years of fieldwork on Mafia in Sicily and lectures on the subject at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of two books in French, Masques et dévoilements and Les théâtres de Maures et Chrétiens. |