Jane Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 566 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Italy's "Southern Question"
The 'Southern Question' has been a major topic in Italian political, economic and cultural life for a century and more. During the Cold War, it was the justification for heavy government intervention. In contemporary Italy, a major part of the appeal of the Lombard League has been its promise to dissociate the South from the North, even to the point of secession. The South also remains a resonant theme in Italian literature.This interdisciplinary…
Sydel Silverman (1933-2019)
"Mafiacraft" and mafia activity
Deborah Puccio-Den has conducted ethnographic research in Palermo since the mid-1990s, focusing on efforts to criminalize the mafia, both on the part of the criminal justice system, and also by ordinary citizens, among them photographers, artists, writers, social scientists, journalists, and antimafia activists. She proposes the word "mafiacraft" to conceptualize this process, evoking anthropological analyses of efforts to criminalize witches. Th…
Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform
Since the formation of the Mafia as a criminal organization in late nineteenth-century Sicily, anti-mafia reformers have attacked mafia corruption. If only the state could curtail transactions between mafia members and political and entrepreneurial elites; if only society could reject the intreccio-a gray zone of complicity, enhanced by mafia cultural practices, especially a tradition of hospitality. Below, I consider transformations in this dial…
Organisierte Kriminalität
The Anthropology of Crime and Criminalization
The ambiguity of the concept of crime is evident in the two strands of anthropological research covered in this review. One strand, the anthropology of criminalization, explores how state authorities, media, and citizen discourse define particular groups and practices as criminal, with prejudicial consequences. Examples are drawn from research on peasant rebellion, colonialism, youth, and racially or ethnically marked urban poor. The other strand…
Cloth and Clothing
Women In The Mob
Sicily
Substantial changes have transformed Sicily over the forty years that we have known it as anthropological fieldworkers. This essay draws particular attention to the appearance of industrial age technologies and related modernizing trends; to a dramatic decline in fertility with effects on family life and civic culture; and to the emergence of an antimafia social movement demanding effective police and juridical restraint of organized crime. It fu…
Mafia, Antimafia, and the Plural Cultures of Sicily
Sicily has long been represented in literature and in historical and social science texts as a place that is burdened by cultural values and practices that resist modernity: clientelism and corruption, familism, patriarchy, and lack of trust are said to condemn the island to backwardness. Sicilys association with the mafia adds a further negative image to these representations, an image of organized criminality that is conflated with Sicilian cul…
Reversible Destiny
Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financia…
The Enron Scandal
On 2 December 2001, four days after its credit rating had been downgraded to junk bond status, the Enron Corporation of Houston, Texas, filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States. On the 14 March 2002, Enron’s accountants, Arthur Anderson, were indicted by a federal grand jury on the criminal charge of obstruction of justice for “knowingly, intentionally and corruptly” inducing employees to shred documents relating …
Suggestions from the Antimafia Struggle in Sicily
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2002
The Mafia and al-Qaeda
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, we circulated an essay outlining possible comparisons between the 1980s and 1990s repression of organized crime in Italy and Sicily and the pending repression of the al-Qaeda network. Distributed in several countries, and as a contribution to the Anthropological Quarterly's reflections on September 11, the essay elicited critical and provocative commentary. Respondents questioned, in particular, our neg…
Civil Society Versus Organized Crime
Based on fieldwork in Palermo, this article analyzes the city's antimafia movement in which the words 'civil society' have ample resonance. On the one hand, they convey an ecumenical meaning, suited to overcoming the otherwise polarized Communist and Christian Democratic political identities that anti-mafia activists inherited from the Cold War era. On the other hand, they evoke cultural hegemony, exemplified by antimafia initiatives in the publi…
A response to Giulio Sapelli
Managing Existence in Naples
Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure. Italo Pardo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi. 232 pp., maps, notes, references, index.Gender, Family and Work in Naples. Victoria A. Goddard. Oxford: Berg, 1996. + 264 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index
The Cloth and the Anthropology of Capitalism
Provocations of European Ethnology
What is the relevance of Europeanist ethnography for anthropological theory generally? Considering a region usually regarded as the source rather than an object of anthropology and colonialism alike, seven anthropologists reflexively address, inter alia, the implications of studying spaces already deeply explored by other disciplines, the potential of economic history to defamiliarize Eurocentric models and of recent events to illuminate such con…
TEN Coitus Interruptus and Family Respectability in Catholic Europe
Articulating Hidden Histories
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, Philippe Bourgois, Richard G. Fox, Ashraf Ghani, James Greenberg, Edward C. Hansen, Josiah Heyman, David Hunt, Orvar Lofgren, Blanca M. Muratorio, David Nugent, Rayna Rapp, Hermann Rebel, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, William Roseberry, Harriet Rosenberg, Jane Schneider, Katherine Verdery, Joan Vincent, Edwin N. Wilmsen, and Pamela Wright
Articulating Hidden Histories
Conversion to Christianity
In and Out of Polyester
Nombre de personnes attache une signification sociale a la texture des vetements. L'A. commence par faire l'historique de la revolte de la classe moyenne americaine contre le polyester en notant sa coincidence avec le mouvement culturel plus large appele « post-modernisme ». Puis il presente cette revolte du point de vue des manufactures de synthetiques. Son but est de deux ordres : 1) dissiper leur image de « force externe » manipulant la situat…
Mafia, Antimafia, and the Question of Sicilian Culture
De tout temps qu'il y a eu une mafia en Sicile, il y a eu des intellectuels et des responsables qui ont cherche a analyser et a contrer ce pouvoir politique et culturel. Ces multiples voix antimafieuses se sont heurte cependant a un discours homogene que l'on pourrait nomme « sicilianisme », ou particularite culturelle insulaire. Le but de cet article est de presenter trois contributions du mouvement anti-mafia a l'opposition de ce discours sicil…
Of Vigilance and Virgins
The Cloth and the Anthropology of Capitalism
The Anthropology of Crime and Criminalization
The ambiguity of the concept of crime is evident in the two strands of anthropological research covered in this review. One strand, the anthropology of criminalization, explores how state authorities, media, and citizen discourse define particular groups and practices as criminal, with prejudicial consequences. Examples are drawn from research on peasant rebellion, colonialism, youth, and racially or ethnically marked urban poor. The other strand…
People of the Mediterranean
Modernization and Development
This paper is about social change in underdeveloped areas. It is based on field work in the European Mediterranean between 1965 and 1967. Hansen worked in the wine and champagne district of Villafranca del Panadés, roughly 30 miles from Barcelona, in Catalonia. The Schneiders were in the wheat and pastoral latifundium zone of Western Sicily. The two regions exhibit quite different patterns of land use and tenure, social stratification and settlem…
Peacocks and penguins
This paper relates color symbolism in European dress to the historical geography of textile manufacturing and dyeing, dating back to the Middle Ages. Its central concern is the widespread use of black, not only as a color of mourning, but also as a mode for communicating religious and political goals. Black clothing, it is argued, constituted both a practical and a symbolic means of resisting the luxury, polychrome fabrics that older and more dev…
Mafia, Antimafia, and the Plural Cultures of Sicily
Sicily has long been represented in literature and in historical and social science texts as a place that is burdened by cultural values and practices that resist modernity: clientelism and corruption, familism, patriarchy, and lack of trust are said to condemn the island to backwardness. Sicilys association with the mafia adds a further negative image to these representations, an image of organized criminality that is conflated with Sicilian cul…
Cloth and the Organization of Human Experience
Cloth and Human Experience
Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform
Since the formation of the Mafia as a criminal organization in late nineteenth-century Sicily, anti-mafia reformers have attacked mafia corruption. If only the state could curtail transactions between mafia members and political and entrepreneurial elites; if only society could reject the intreccio-a gray zone of complicity, enhanced by mafia cultural practices, especially a tradition of hospitality. Below, I consider transformations in this dial…
Sex and respectability in an age of fertility decline
Provocations of European Ethnology
What is the relevance of Europeanist ethnography for anthropological theory generally? Considering a region usually regarded as the source rather than an object of anthropology and colonialism alike, seven anthropologists reflexively address, inter alia, the implications of studying spaces already deeply explored by other disciplines, the potential of economic history to defamiliarize Eurocentric models and of recent events to illuminate such con…
Mafia, Antimafia, and the Question of Sicilian Culture
De tout temps qu'il y a eu une mafia en Sicile, il y a eu des intellectuels et des responsables qui ont cherche a analyser et a contrer ce pouvoir politique et culturel. Ces multiples voix antimafieuses se sont heurte cependant a un discours homogene que l'on pourrait nomme « sicilianisme », ou particularite culturelle insulaire. Le but de cet article est de presenter trois contributions du mouvement anti-mafia a l'opposition de ce discours sicil…
Demographic Transitions in a Sicilian Rural Town
Combining archival, ethnographic, vital, and oral historical data, this paper compares the experiences of population growth and demographic transi tion among different social classes of a Sicilian rural town from 1850 to the pres ent. Four locally named groups have dominated this town's social life during most of the period in question—gentry, artisans, landed, and landless peasants. Of particular concern are the contrasting patterns of demograph…
The Mafia and al-Qaeda
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, we circulated an essay outlining possible comparisons between the 1980s and 1990s repression of organized crime in Italy and Sicily and the pending repression of the al-Qaeda network. Distributed in several countries, and as a contribution to the Anthropological Quarterly's reflections on September 11, the essay elicited critical and provocative commentary. Respondents questioned, in particular, our neg…
Frontiers of Christian evangelism
Sicily
Substantial changes have transformed Sicily over the forty years that we have known it as anthropological fieldworkers. This essay draws particular attention to the appearance of industrial age technologies and related modernizing trends; to a dramatic decline in fertility with effects on family life and civic culture; and to the emergence of an antimafia social movement demanding effective police and juridical restraint of organized crime. It fu…
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Civil Society Versus Organized Crime
Based on fieldwork in Palermo, this article analyzes the city's antimafia movement in which the words 'civil society' have ample resonance. On the one hand, they convey an ecumenical meaning, suited to overcoming the otherwise polarized Communist and Christian Democratic political identities that anti-mafia activists inherited from the Cold War era. On the other hand, they evoke cultural hegemony, exemplified by antimafia initiatives in the publi…
Family Patrimonies and Economic Behavior in Western Sicily
Jane Schneider, Family Patrimonies and Economic Behavior in Western Sicily, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3, Social and Political Processes in the Western Mediterranean (Special Issue) (Jul., 1969), pp. 109-129
Women In The Mob
Sydel Silverman (1933-2019)
Suggestions from the Antimafia Struggle in Sicily
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2002
European Expansion and Hand-crafted Cloth
Trade and sorcery accusations in East Africa
Gerald W. Hartwig. The Art of Survival in East Africa: The Kerebe and Long‐Distance Trade 1800–1895. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Africana Publishing Company, 1976. Maps, appendix, references, and index. $24.00
Family Patrimonies and Economic Behavior in Western Sicily
Jane Schneider, Family Patrimonies and Economic Behavior in Western Sicily, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3, Social and Political Processes in the Western Mediterranean (Special Issue) (Jul., 1969), pp. 109-129
Of Vigilance and Virgins
Ethnology
Modernization and Development
This paper is about social change in underdeveloped areas. It is based on field work in the European Mediterranean between 1965 and 1967. Hansen worked in the wine and champagne district of Villafranca del Panadés, roughly 30 miles from Barcelona, in Catalonia. The Schneiders were in the wheat and pastoral latifundium zone of Western Sicily. The two regions exhibit quite different patterns of land use and tenure, social stratification and settlem…
Sicilian Harvest Song
From Autonomous Development to Dependent Modernization
In a recent essay in CSSH (16:1) Oriol Pi-Sunyer has joined in debate with our article ‘Modernization and Development...’ (CSSH 14:3). The thrust of his critique is that our model of social change in the Western Mediterranean leads us inexorably to lump Sicily and Catalonia together with respect to general social and economic developments since World War II. He argues in terms of modernization theory that Catalans long ago developed industry and …
Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily
Trade and sorcery accusations in East Africa
Gerald W. Hartwig. The Art of Survival in East Africa: The Kerebe and Long‐Distance Trade 1800–1895. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Africana Publishing Company, 1976. Maps, appendix, references, and index. $24.00
Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily
Peacocks and penguins
This paper relates color symbolism in European dress to the historical geography of textile manufacturing and dyeing, dating back to the Middle Ages. Its central concern is the widespread use of black, not only as a color of mourning, but also as a mode for communicating religious and political goals. Black clothing, it is argued, constituted both a practical and a symbolic means of resisting the luxury, polychrome fabrics that older and more dev…
People of the Mediterranean
Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily
Cultural/Applied
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Demographic Transitions in a Sicilian Rural Town
Combining archival, ethnographic, vital, and oral historical data, this paper compares the experiences of population growth and demographic transi tion among different social classes of a Sicilian rural town from 1850 to the pres ent. Four locally named groups have dominated this town's social life during most of the period in question—gentry, artisans, landed, and landless peasants. Of particular concern are the contrasting patterns of demograph…
The Night Battles
Cloth and the Organization of Human Experience
The Rise of Market Culture
The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900. WILLIAM M. REDDY
Frontiers of Christian evangelism
European Expansion and Hand-crafted Cloth
Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society
Cloth and Human Experience
The Oriental, the Ancient, and the Primitive
Sex and respectability in an age of fertility decline
Medical Coverage in the Field
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