A01=Berardino Palumbo
Anthropology of Religion
Author_Berardino Palumbo
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Political and Economic Anthropology
Sociology
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- ISBN 9781836953364
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect – sometimes fearful, but often playful or pious – for those values and their enforcers. State and Church misconstrue these values as vestiges of a society morally damned and left behind in a pagan past. This study draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore a strikingly different Sicily from the self-congratulatory version of government and religious leaders, where a seemingly obscure set of rural practices offers a critical perspective on modernity itself.
Berardino Palumbo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Messina. In addition to co-editing two series of anthropological monographs, he is the author of several books and articles on the anthropology of Italy, and Sicily in particular.
