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Book SynopsisShows how corruption operates through informal rules, personal connections and wider social contexts.
Trade Review'Breaks new descriptive and theoretical ground for anthropology' -- William Beeman, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University and Visiting Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
'An exceptionally timely anthropological response to an increasingly insistent global discourse of 'good governance', this excellent collection offers fresh and sophisticated perspectives for cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and roles of 'corruption'' -- John Gledhill, Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester
Table of Contents1. Sharp Practice: Anthropology and the Study of Corruption by Cris Shore and Dieter Haer
Part I. Corruption in ‘Transitional’ Societies
2. The Intersection of Political Corruption and Organized Crime: A Comparison of Palermo, Italy and Youngstown, Ohio.
3. Bribes, Gifts, and Unofficial Payments: Towards an Anthropology of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia by Michele Rivkin-Fish
4. Corruption as a Transitional Phenomenon: Understanding Endemic Corruption by David Lovell
5. Corruption, Property Restitution, and Romanianness by Filippo M. Zerilli
Part II. Institutionalised Corruption and Institutions of Anti-Corruption
6. Integrity Warriors: Global Morality and the Anticorruption Movement in the Balkans by Steven Sampson
7. Culture and Corruption in the EU: reflections on Fraud, Nepotism and Cronyism in the European Commission by Cris Shore
8. Corruption in Corporate America: Enron – Before and After by Carol MacLennan
Part III. Narratives and Practices of Everyday of Corruption
9. Narrating the State of Corruption by Akhil Gupta
10.‘Where the Jeeps Come From: Narrations on Corruption in the Alentejo (Southern Portugal) by Dorle Drackle,
11. Citizens despite the State: Everyday corruption and local politics in El Alto, Bolivia by Sian Lazar
12. Afterword: Anthropology and Corruption: the State of the Art by Dorothy Louise Zinn
Notes on Contributors
Index
