A clerical promotion makes manual labour shameful for a whole kinship clan

Evidence

If in any family a priest becomes a canon, immediately, for the entire clan, “manual labour” becomes a “disgrace”: the most one should do is to engage in commerce . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1055

Categorization

• CANDY: A sharp miniature portrait of prestige contagion within southern Italian kinship — a memorable vignette of status norms.