The Ethnographic Study of Corruption

Davide Torsello

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The Ethnographic Study of Corruption

Davide Torsello^*

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The ethnographic study of corruption is a comparatively recent scholarly field. Classical anthropological scholarship has not programmatically dealt with this phenomenon for a number of reasons that are methodological, epistemological, and deontological in nature. This chapter illustrates, mainly from the viewpoint of social anthropology, the potentialities and drawbacks of the ethnographic study of corruption. It maintains that although ethnographic approaches to the study of large-scale corruption are difficult, corruption and a number of petty phenomena (gift giving, reciprocity, favors, and informality) can be studied from original and innovative perspectives that focus simultaneously on ideas, ideologies, and practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	162-178
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191890581
ISBN (Print)	9780198858218
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198858218.013.9
State	Published - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

Culture
anthropology
corruption
ethnographic research
public discourses

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