Print version: Zinn, Dorothy Louise. Raccomandazione : clientelism and connections in Italy. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019 278 pages European anthropology in translation ; Volume 7. ISBN 9781789201970
Translation of: La raccomandazione : clientelismo vecchio e nuovo. Roma : Donzelli, 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : the art of raccomandazione -- The ethnographic setting -- Patronage/clientelism : some theoretical considerations -- Towards a poetics of patronage -- Raccomandazione, tangente and mafia : an "amoral" family of genres -- Raccomandazione, class relations and the southern question -- Employing the ’little shove’ : raccomandazione and work -- "We’re not Uganda, but almost" : raccomandazione and southern identity -- Conclusion : raccomandazione and the bourgeois-liberal world order -- Epilogue : what happened when they read what I wrote : Mediterranean clientelism and corruption revisited.