Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the English Edition ix
4. Acknowledgments xxii
5. Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione 1
6. Chapter 1 The Ethnographic Setting 22
7. Chapter 2 Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations 40
8. Chapter 3 Toward a Poetics of Patronage 69
9. Chapter 4 Raccomandazione, Tangente, and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of Genres 107
10. Chapter 5 Raccomandazione, Class Relations, and the Southern Question 130
11. Chapter 6 Employing the “Little Shove” Raccomandazione and Work 155
12. Chapter 7 “We’re Not Uganda, but Almost” Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity 176
13. Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order 196
14. Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited 212
15. Glossary 230
16. Bibliography 232
17. Index 247