Anton Blok (born 1935 in
Amsterdam) is a Dutch
anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...
, famous for studying
the Mafia in
Sicily in 1960s. Anton Blok was a visiting professor at the
University of Michigan (1972–73) and the
University of California, Berkeley in 1988. From 1973 until 1986, he served as full professor of
cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The portma ...
at
Radboud University,
Nijmegen
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
. He then accepted a chair at the
University of Amsterdam, where he remained until his retirement. For that occasion, thirty of his international colleagues and former students contributed essays in his honor, an edited volume titled as ''Miniature Etnografiche'' (SUN, 2000). Now a professor ''emeritus'' professor at U Amsterdam, Dr. Blok also spent one semester at
Yale as a
fellow.
Select bibliography
*''The Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960: A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs''. Harper & Row, 1974.
*''De Bokkerijders: Roversbenden en geheime genootschappen in de Landen van Overmaas (1730–1774)''. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 1991.
*''Honour and Violence.'' Cambridge: Polity, 2001.
*''Anthropologische Perspektiven: Einführung, Kritik und Plädoyer.'' With Klaus Schomburg. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995.
*''De Vernieuwers: De Zegeningen van Tegenslag in Wetenschap en Kunst, 1500–2000''. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2013.
References
*''Organized Crime'' (2003), Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter. Waveland Press: Upper Sadle River, New Jersey.
Biography at University of Amsterdam
1935 births
Living people
Anthropology educators
Anthropology writers
Cultural anthropologists
Dutch anthropologists
Historians of the Sicilian Mafia
Scientists from Amsterdam
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Yale University faculty
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