Corruption

‘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

Dieter Haller is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His focus is on political anthropology, borderland studies, gender, and the Mediterranean. His books include Corruption (Pluto, 2005).Cris Shore is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University. One of his recent publications is The Shapeshifting Crown and he and Susan Wright are co-editors of the Anthropology of Policy book series for Stanford University Press.