Bøker av Anton (University of Amsterdam) Blok

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success.

Anton Blok combines anthropology and history in a comparative exploration of the links between honour and violence in widely different settings. He draws on material from two interrelated projects: micro--studies of the rural mafia in Sicily, and banditry in the Dutch republic, each set in its historical context.