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‘In the beginning was the Word…’ The symbols of the mafia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Diego Gambetta
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Most expressions and symbols associated with the mafia—indeed, the term mafia itself—are made up of an almost surrealist cocktail of bogus and genuine sources, mythical and prosaic characters, fiction and reality. Already in 1876, Franchetti was puzzling over ‘the tendency to turn a mafioso into a legendary type, a feeling natural enough indeed in a professor of literature, but much harder to explain in wealthy landowners…’ (p. 34).

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , May 1991 , pp. 53 - 77
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1991

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