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Comment on Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.

▪ Abstract  This article reviews neo-Weberian, neo-institutionalist economic, and neo-Marxian approaches to the analysis of capitalism in late modern societies. It argues that all make important contributions to the understanding of the increasing economic variability reported in capitalist societies. The approaches also may be profitably combined to assess the degree to which specific cases identified deviate in significant ways from current hegemonic patterns of capitalist development. Finally, consumption theory is assessed for its value in revising standard capitalist development theory.

The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Agricultural Change in Tuscany. Jeff Pratt. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. 219 pp.

Introduction / Nigel Rapport, Tord Larsen, Michael Blim, Theodore M. Porter and Kalpana Ram -- Ritual repetition, uncertainty, and the search for an explanation of the 2008 crash, or how economists are doing history / Michael Blim -- Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society / Emil A. Royrvik -- Falling in the shadow of relations? Money and the fetishism of relations : belief, speculation and modes of decision-making / Tian Sørhaug -- Asylum-age numbers : the hopeless push to census the insane / Theodore M. Porter -- Paper trails and procedures in child welfare services : a cultural logic in a professional context / Petter Almklov, Jens Røyrvik and Gro Ulset -- The mutating mediatization of pandemics / Charles L. Briggs -- From grandmother's kitchen to festivals and professional chef : the standardization and ritualization of Arab food in Argentina / Lorenzo Cañás Bottos and Tanja Plasil -- The magic of "mudrās" and performance as "loving play" : the limits placed on intellectualism and rationalizing reforms by the performing arts of India / Kalpana Ram -- Enumeration and generalization, and knowing through love : the case of Stanley Spencer's artistry / Nigel Rapport -- From "wuh wuh" to "hoo-hoo" and the rituals of representing bird song, 1885-1925 / Alexandra Hui -- Archives and cultural legibility : objects and subjects of neoliberal heritage technologies / Rosemary J. Coombe and Eugenia Kisin -- Space, territory and the ritualized reification and standardized measure of nation and nature : the case of a Swedish children's story, Konrad Lorenz and "super" nationalism / Kenneth R. Olwig -- "First I turn myself into an object; then I turn myself into a work of art" : objectifying and ritualizing contemporary life / Tord Larsen.

Among the founding nations of the European Union, no nation has experienced a more devastating affect from the 2008 economic crisis than Italy. Although its recovery has recently begun, Italy has fallen even further behind EU economic leaders and the EU average. Looking at how and why this happened, Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations. With its wide breadth of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system