From Bottom to Top and from Top to Bottom : Political Clans in Corsica Political clans in Corsica, once described, are shown to be both a culturally invented political dimension of a social organization and the relay of the State's power on the island. This interpretation disputes explanations that merely oppose a modern political system (the State) to local institutions inherited from another age and that restrict the analysis of how power is distributed in a modern society to the study of the national government and public authority.Après avoir décrit le clanisme politique en Corse, l'auteur s'efforce de montrer qu'il est tout à la fois un mode politique d'organisation, culturellement inventé, des relations sociales et le relais du pouv...