Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives

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. Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His most recent publications are: 'Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge', Oxford/New York: Berghahn (co-edited with Susanna Trnka, 2013) and 'The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology'

1. Cris Shore and Dieter Haer ‘Sharp Practice: Anthropology and the Study of Corruption’

Part I. Corruption in ‘Transitional’ Societies
2. Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider ‘The Intersection of Political Corruption and Organized Crime: A Comparison of Palermo, Italy and Youngstown, Ohio.’
3. Michele Rivkin-Fish ‘Bribes, Gifts, and Unofficial Payments: Towards an Anthropology of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia’
4. David Lovell ‘Corruption as a Transitional Phenomenon: Understanding Endemic Corruption’
5. Filippo M. Zerilli ‘Corruption, Property Restitution, and Romanianness’

Part II. Institutionalised Corruption and Institutions of Anti-Corruption
6. Steven Sampson ‘Integrity Warriors: Global Morality and the Anticorruption Movement in the Balkans’
7. Cris Shore ‘Culture and Corruption in the EU: reflections on Fraud, Nepotism and Cronyism in the European Commission’
8. Carol MacLennan ‘Corruption in Corporate America: Enron – Before and After’

Part III. Narratives and Practices of Everyday of Corruption
9. Akhil Gupta, ‘Narrating the State of Corruption’
10. Dorle Drackle, ‘Where the Jeeps Come From: Narrations on Corruption in the Alentejo (Southern Portugal)’
11. Sian Lazar ‘Citizens despite the State: Everyday corruption and local politics in El Alto, Bolivia’
12. Afterword: Dorothy Louise Zinn ‘Anthropology and Corruption: the State of the Art’

Notes on Contributors
Index