Corruption and the secret of law
Subtitle: a legal anthropological perspective
By: edited by Monique Nuijten and Gerhard Anders.
Contributors: Nuijten, Monique.; Anders, Gerhard.
Series: Law, justice and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754671107
Subjects: Corruption; Corruption -- Cross-cultural studies; Culture and law; Law and anthropology
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Corruption and the secret of law : an introduction / Gerhard Anders and Monique Nuijten; title: Hidden acts, open talks : how anthropology can "observe" and describe corruption / Giorgio Blundo; title: Deep corruption in Indonesia : discourses, practices, histories / Heinzpeter Znoj; title: Corruption judgments in prewar Japan : locating the influence of tradition, morality, and trust on criminal justice / Andrew MacNaughton and Kam Bill Wong; title: Corrupted files : cross-fading defense strategies of a Vesuvian lawyer / Livia Holden and Giovanni Tortora; title: Corruption narratives and the power of concealment : the case of Burundi's civil war / Simon turner; title: The orchestration of corruption and excess enjoyment in western Mexico / Pieter de Vries; title: Corruption or social capital? : tact and the performance of Guanxi in market socialist China / Alan Smart and Carloyn Hsu; title: Corruption in the U.S. borderlands with Mexico : the "purity" of society and the "perversity" of borders / Josiah McC. Heyman and Howard Campbell.