Exploitation, cooperation, collusion: an enquiry into patronage
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- an enquiry-into-patronage
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 29 (1), 105-126
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975600005609
Abstract
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.Keywords
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