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    Review of "Mafia Life" by Federico Varese

    Review of "Mafia Life" by Federico Varese

    In Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime, Federico Varese offers the reader a journey into the human dimensions of mafia members. Through unfolding stories from the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triads, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the Calabrian N’Drangheta, the New York Mafia and the Russian Vory-v-Vakone, we obtain new ways of thinking about the existential identity and fragility of different mafia groups across the world. Varese responds to some fun
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    THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PROTEST AGAINST INJUSTICE - THE SPECIAL ISSUE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS

    THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PROTEST AGAINST INJUSTICE - THE SPECIAL ISSUE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS

    The shared ‘orientalist vision’ poses a threat to us all!

    The shared ‘orientalist vision’ poses a threat to us all!

    FIGHTING AGAINST THE MAFIA

    FIGHTING AGAINST THE MAFIA

    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE IN URBAN HISTORY - MAFIA AND THE SACK OF CITIES:
THE URBAN HISTO

    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE IN URBAN HISTORY - MAFIA AND THE SACK OF CITIES: THE URBAN HISTO

    CURRENT BOOK PROJECT - THE SICILIAN REBELLION

    CURRENT BOOK PROJECT - THE SICILIAN REBELLION

    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS: THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF PROTEST A

    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS: THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF PROTEST A

    DECOLONISATION OF CURRICULUM: INDIGENOUS CONTENT SYLLABUS MATERIALS

    DECOLONISATION OF CURRICULUM: INDIGENOUS CONTENT SYLLABUS MATERIALS

    BANDITS, BRIGANDS, AND MILITANTS: 
THE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF OUTLAWS

    BANDITS, BRIGANDS, AND MILITANTS: THE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF OUTLAWS

    Official Book Launch of Violence and Militants at the British Academy

    Official Book Launch of Violence and Militants at the British Academy

    BOOK REVIEW: MAFIA ORGANIZATIONS: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE BY MAURIZIO CATINO

    BOOK REVIEW: MAFIA ORGANIZATIONS: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE BY MAURIZIO CATINO

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