From Clans To Co Ops

Download or read book From Clans to Co-ops written by Theodoros Rakopoulos and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Problems with cooperatives -- The anthropology of co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian lens -- Cooperatives and the historical anti-Mafia movement -- Worldviews of labour: legality and food ideologies -- The limits of 'bad kinship': Sicilian anti-Mafia families -- The use of gossip: setting cooperative boundaries -- 'Wage is male-but land is a woman' -- Community troubles: cooperative conundrum -- Divided by land: Mafia and anti-Mafia proximity -- Conclusion. the private life of political cooperativism.