Corruption and the Secret of Law (Law, Justice and Power) Legal Anthropological Perspective

Corruption and the Secret of Law (Law, Justice and Power)
Legal Anthropological Perspective
Monique Nuijten and Gerhard Anders
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List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xi

1 Corruption and the Secret of Law: An Introduction 1

Gerhard Anders and Monique Nuijten

SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTION AND BUREAUCRATIC ITINERARIES

2 Hidden Acts, Open Talks. How Anthropology Can “Observe” and

Describe Corruption 27

Giorgio Blundo

3 Deep Corruption in Indonesia: Discourses, Practices, Histories 53

Heinzpeter Znoj

THE INDETERMINACY OF THE LAW AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION

4 Corruption Judgments in Pre-war Japan: Locating the Influence of

Tradition, Morality, and Trust on Criminal Justice 77

Andrew MacNaughton and Kam Bill Wong

5 Corrupted Files: Cross-fading Defense Strategies of a Vesuvian

Lawyer 99

Livia Holden and Giovanni Tortora

CORRUPTION ACCUSATIONS AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES

6 Corruption Narratives and the Power of Concealment: The Case of

Burundi’s Civil War 125

Simon Turner

7 The Orchestration of Corruption and Excess Enjoyment in Western

Mexico 143

Pieter de Vries

STATE OFFICIALS IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE

8 Corruption or Social Capital? Tact and the Performance of Guanxi

in Market Socialist China 167

Alan Smart and Carolyn L. Hsu

vi Corruption and the Secret of Law

9 Corruption in the US Borderlands with Mexico: The “Purity” of

Society and the “Perversity” of Borders 191

Josiah McC. Heyman and Howard Campbell

Index 219