Exploitation, cooperation, collusion

An Enquiry Into Patronage

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5111271
AutoresMichael A Korovkin (autor correspondente)
Ano1988
Volume29
Fascículo1
Páginas105-126
Data de publicação1988-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975600005609
OpenAlexW2119699209
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas34

Anthropology has become aware that its analysis of communities, no matter how small and isolated they might be, must reckon with the context of the nation-state. Many cultural phenomena that anthropologists confront on the local level thus are often seen as a reaction to and, to an extent, a consequence of the socioeconomic processes associated with the larger nation-state economy. In the Mediterranean region, patronage appears to be one of the most prominent features of any given community, because patronage resists changes engendered by the nation-state. It has been a constant target at which various anthropologists have expended their polemical ammunition. This essay examines the nature of the link between patronage and the nation-state

Ammunition · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Culinary Culture and Tourism