Anton Blok, a dutch anthropologist, born in Amsterdam in 1935.
He is mostly known for his studies on the Mafia in Sicily in the 1960s.
Anton Blok was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1972-1973) and University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is a professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
Some other publications by Anton Blok:
- Honour and violence. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. ISBN 0-7456-0449-8
- Anthropologische Perspektiven: Einführung, Kritik und Plädoyer. With Klaus Schomburg. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995. ISBN 3-608-91725-X