Anton Blok

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Anton Blok (* 1935 ) is a Dutch cultural anthropologist .

Blok has been a professor at the University of Amsterdam since 1972 - meanwhile retired . He conducted field research in Sicily in the 1960s and became known for his publications on the Mafia .

Blok was visiting professor at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley .

Fonts (selection)

  • Wittgenstein and Elias. A methodische richtlijn voor de antropologie , Amsterdam: Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 1976, ISBN 90-253-3048-7
  • The Mafia in a Sicilian Village 1860 - 1960. A study of violent peasant entrepreneurs , Frankfurt a. M., 1981, ISBN 3-518-11082-9
  • Anthropological Perspectives: Introduction, Criticism and Plea , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995, ISBN 3-608-91725-X (1st edition 1985)
  • Honor and violence , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Blok, entry on the website of the Nexus Institute ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Blok, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935