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Exploitation, cooperation, collusion: an enquiry into patronage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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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.
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- An enquiry into patronage
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- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , May 1988 , pp. 105 - 126
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- Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1988
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