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The Mazzel Ritual - Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade
von: Dina Siegel
Springer-Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9780387959603, 232 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Preis: 112,30 EUR
Preface
6
Acknowledgements
8
Contents
10
List of Illustrations
13
List of Abbreviations
14
Introduction
17
About This Book
18
1 Theory and Research: An Anthropological Journey into the Diamond Industry
20
Multisite Anthropology
21
Access
24
Breaking Taboos About Jews, the Mafia, and Other Dangers of Fieldwork
27
Cultural Criminology and Semi-Autonomous Social Fields
29
2 From Marco Polo to the Syndicate: The History of a Multilevel Organisation
33
Historical Development of the Diamond Business
34
The Development of the Diamond Organisation in Europe
35
Diamond Pipeline Structure and Organisation
38
Production Countries Control and Criminalisation
38
Distribution of Rough Diamonds Marketing Methods
43
Processing Centres
46
Banks and Bourses
49
Not Without the Syndicate
50
Control and Mobility
52
Illegal Activities of De Beers
54
An Old Monopoly in a New World
56
3 The King of Gems: How the Diamond Became the Most Precious Stone
59
Legends and Symbols
60
The Value of a Rare Stone
62
Smuggling for Survival and Emigration
65
Romantics or Business? Consumerism in Postmodern Times
67
Women and Diamonds
76
Organisation of Preservation of the Value of Diamonds by the Diamond Industry
78
4 The Mazzel Ritual: Trust, Loyalty, Risk, and the Culture of the Diamond Trade
80
The Culture of the Diamond Trade
80
Trust and Loyalty
81
Noncontractual Agreements
85
Risks for Trust
87
Trust and Lies
88
Semi-Autonomous Legal Field and Community of Ethnic Middlemen
89
Business Disputes and Extralegal Solutions
91
The Case of GIA
93
5 Jews, Indians, and Arabs: On Diamond Markets and Traders
95
Creation of Diamond Markets
95
Diamond Market of Antwerp
96
Jewish Diamond Dealers of Antwerp
96
Historical Background
99
Jewish Antwerp Today
102
Jewish Diamond Market
108
Indian Diamond Dealers in Antwerp
18
The Indian Community and Indian Market in Antwerp
112
The Multiethnic Diamond Market of Antwerp
117
Ethnic Elections
118
The Case of Israel
120
The Worlds No.1 Exporter Ramat Gan, the Diamond Capital?
121
History of Diamantairs in Palestine and Israel
124
Israelis Are Everywhere
126
The Diamond Market and Community in Israel
127
The Case of Dubai
129
The Indian Community and the Indian Diamond Market of Dubai
131
Jewish Diamond Traders in Dubai?
132
6 Threats to the Industry: Rivals from Within, International Competition, and Synthetic Diamonds
135
The New Cartel? Challenge to De Beers
135
Ole Hadash Hebrew for new immigrant. from Tashkent
136
De Beers and the Russian Bears
141
The Russian Adventure
142
Argyle, PHB Billiton, and Others . . .
144
Synthetic Diamonds Another Rival?
145
7 Conflict Diamonds? Not Every Diamond Is a Blood Diamond
149
Diamonds as a Public Problem and Moral Panic
150
The Role of the NGOs
152
The Escalation of the Problem and the Reaction of the Diamond Industry
155
Kimberley Process The Success Story of the Global Solution for a Local Problem?
157
Critics and Doubters
158
Diamond Wars or War Against Diamonds and the Diamond Industry?
159
Certificates for All!
161
How to Control the Uncontrollable
162
Impossible Task -- Determining the Origin of Conflict Diamonds
164
Neighbours0 Quarrels 0 The Worries from the Nonconflict African Countries
165
Conflict Diamonds and Leonardo DiCaprio
167
Conflict Diamonds and Terrorism
168
Consequences of the Conflict Diamonds Invention
172
8 Crime Does Pay The Industrys Vulnerability to Criminality
174
The Criminal Acquisitions of Diamonds
175
Smuggling and Corruption Western Invention?
177
How to Steal a Diamond?
181
Diamonds Crime During Transit
182
Diamond Crime in Processing Centres and in Jewellery Shops
183
9 Diamonds and Mafia: Criminal Networks and Illicit Markets
187
The Diamond Robberies in the Twenty-First Century
187
The Millennium Dome Robbery
187
The Antwerp Robbery of the Century
188
Pink Panthers and the Robbery in Louvre
189
Robbery of the Museon
190
Where Are the Diamonds?
191
Magpie Syndrome
193
Diamonds and Organised Crime Some paragraphs of this part are taken from Siegel (2008).
193
Georgian and Russian Mafia
195
Israeli and Italian Organised Crime in Antwerp
197
West African Criminal Networks
199
Illicit Markets and Diamonds
200
Diamonds and Drugs
201
Diamonds and Weapons
203
Leonid Minin Women, Guns, and Diamonds
203
Victor Bout
204
Money Laundering, Fraud, and Tax Evasion
206
Fouad Abbas
206
Martin R. Frankel
208
Judge Gross and Genovese Crime Family
209
Technological Prevention
210
Screening of Personnel
211
Private Security
212
Coda
215
Bibliography
218
Index
228
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