Jeremy Boissevain 
Factions, Friends and Feasts [PDF ebook] 
Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean

List of Tables
List of Plates
Preface and Introduction

PART I: PATTERNS

Chapter 1. Seasonal Variations on Some Mediterranean Themes
Chapter 2. Unhealed Scars: Religious and Ethnic Diversity Around

PART II: COMMUNITIES

Chapter 3. Factions, Parties and Politics in a Maltese Village
Chapter 4. Poverty and Politics in a Sicilian Agro-Town
Chapter 5. The Italians of Montreal

PART III: QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES

Chapter 6. The Place of Non-Corporate Groups
Chapter 7. Towards a Sociology of Social Anthropology
Chapter 8. Beyond the Community
Chapter 9. Of Men and Marbles: Reconsidering Factionalism
Chapter 10. When the Saints go Marching Out

PART IV: RITUAL, INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS

Chapter 11. Ritual  and Tourism: Culture by the Pound?
Chapter 12. Revitalizing European Rituals
Chapter 13. ‘But we Live Here’: Perspectives on Cultural Tourism
Chapter 14. Insiders and Outsiders: Mass Tourism in Southern Europe
Chapter 15. Tourists, Developers and Civil Society

PART V: REFLECTIONS

Chapter 16. On Predicting the Future: Second Thoughts on the Decline of Feasts and Patrons

Bibliography

Jeremy Boissevain (1928-2015) was Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and also taught at the universities of Montreal and Sussex and held visiting appointments in Malta, Britain, the United States, and Poland. His books and co-edited works include Saints and Fireworks (1965), Hal Farrug (1969), The Italians of Montreal (1970), Friends of Friends (1974), Beyond the Community (1975), Coping with Tourists (1996), Contesting the Foreshore (2004) and Hal Kirkop (2006). Translations of his work have appeared in Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Japanese and Maltese.