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Eating with the Mafia : belonging and violence
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Parker, Martin (2008) Eating with the Mafia : belonging and violence. Human Relations, Vol.61 (No.7). pp. 989-1006. doi:10.1177/0018726708093905 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726708093905
Abstract
This article presents a reading of the place of food in a variety of texts which concern the Mafia. In many organizations, food often seems to be symbolically deployed as a representation of community through commensality. However, in the Mafia, unlike many contemporary organizations, food preparation and consumption appears not to be relegated to liminal times and spaces, but to be a central part of being a Mafiosi. The article explores this idea in terms of the connections between metaphors of community and family in the Mafia and in legal business organizations, and then the tensions between community and violence in the Mafia and in legal business organizations. After a consideration of the partial dislocation of women and food in the Mafia, the article concludes with some reflections on organizations and belonging.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.61 | ||||
Number: | No.7 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 989-1006 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0018726708093905 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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