The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private ProtectionHarvard University Press, 1993 - 335 pagini In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia. |
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... ritual in Medford , Massachusetts , 1990 ) Over the years the number of words in the oath has diminished , perhaps in order to adapt to increasingly less elaborate and more pragmatic linguistic conventions . Nonetheless , the essential ...
... ritual in Medford , Massachusetts , 1990 ) Over the years the number of words in the oath has diminished , perhaps in order to adapt to increasingly less elaborate and more pragmatic linguistic conventions . Nonetheless , the essential ...
Pagina 149
... ritual all the more striking . It pos- sesses a concentration of evocative power typical of ritual in oral cul- tures . Everything converges on the blood spilled on the card , which is then set on fire : the two original symbols become ...
... ritual all the more striking . It pos- sesses a concentration of evocative power typical of ritual in oral cul- tures . Everything converges on the blood spilled on the card , which is then set on fire : the two original symbols become ...
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... ritual ; it mat- ters less what form it takes . Rituals fulfill their task without necessarily having recourse to a restricted range of omnipresent symbols . Thus , it could be regarded as coincidental that the ritual of the Sicilian ...
... ritual ; it mat- ters less what form it takes . Rituals fulfill their task without necessarily having recourse to a restricted range of omnipresent symbols . Thus , it could be regarded as coincidental that the ritual of the Sicilian ...
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The Market | 15 |
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