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The ethnography of corruption: research themes in
political anthropology
Abstract
One striking feature of the booming literature on corruption in the social sciences is
the comparatively weak role played by anthropology. A recent World Bank review
notices that anthropological studies dealing with corruption cover about 2% of the
relevant scientific literature. The reasons for this “silence” can be investigated trough
a multidimensional attention to the methodological, empirical and theoretical
positions of the discipline. In this paper I argue that, although still scattered and
relatively new, the ethnographic study of corruption provides original and empirically
relevant contributions. This paper is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive
thematic literature review that analyzes comparatively research results from
ethnographic studies on corruption worldwide. The focus of the paper is on a number
of themes which are relevant to all social science disciplines working in the field: the
state, the relation between political power and public discourses, legitimacy, legality,
social morality and cultural aspects.
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