Anton Blok

Anton Blok is emeritus professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He taught at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University. His best-known books include The Mafia of a Sicilian Village (1974), and a collection of critical essays Honour and Violence (2001). His interest in biography and innovation goes back to the early 1960s when he studied anthropol­ogy at the University of Amsterdam.