LLCU 214 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Capobastone, Consigliere, Prison Gang

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Course: LLCU 214
• Professor: Donato Santeramo

Document Summary

Mafia refers in its original use to a specific type of secret criminal society in sicily. The word mafia was not a word native to the italian language or the sicilian dialect. Popular legend says the word was coined as an acronym during the uprising of sicilians against the french capetian house of anjou. Without names, gangs would be perceived as just a group of hooligans. Giuseppe bonanno (infamous family gangs in new york said the original mafiosi were red shirt volunteers (men of honor and fighters for the cause) Folklore the garduna brothers (prison gang in spain) escaped and founded, camorra in. Naples, ndrangheta in calabria, and the mafia in sicily. The fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple of the ndra(cid:374)gheta is that (cid:862)(cid:271)lood is thi(cid:272)ker tha(cid:374) water(cid:863) Cosa nostra largely created by men of sicilian birth. End of wwii, the mafia had become a major crime syndicate operating in both sicily and the us.