Raccomandazione

RaccomandazioneThe issue of patronage clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective as a morally ambivalent social fact and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern

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Barber Conable (former President of the World Bank Group and US Congressman from New York)

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Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form

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