is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology,University of Amsterdam. He taught at the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale University. He is an associate of the Department of Ethnology, Université de Provence at Aix-en-Provence. Blok conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Sicily in the 1960s and received his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1972. In subsequent years he traced the lives of 18th-century bandits from criminal records in the State Archives at Maastricht. His research traverses the boundaries of anthropology, history, and folklore and focuses on cultural codes and power of marginal and mobile occupational groups. His work appears in English andDutch, and has been translated into Italian, French, German, Swedish, and Portuguese. His publications include The Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960 (Oxford 1974), De Bokkerijders. Roversbenden en geheime genootschappen in de Landen van Overmaas, 1730-1774 (Amsterdam 1995, 2nd edition), and Honour and Violence (Cambridge 2001). He is co-editor (with Dionigi Albera and Christian Bromberger) of L'Anthropologie et la Mediterranee (Paris 2001).