Corruption
Subtitle: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Contributors: Dieter Haller (Editor); Cris Shore (Editor)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: June 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780745321585
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social & cultural anthropology; Criminology; Corporations; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Political corruption; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Corrupt practices; Corruption
First sentence: The context for this book was set by several incidents, foremost among which were the dramatic fraud and corruption scandals that rocked corporate America at the end of 2001 following the collapse of the US energy corporation Enron.