Between Morality and the Law

Italo Pardo is an Honorary Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent and a Member of Eliot College, University of Kent. He has published many books (two sole-authored volumes and several edited volumes) including the 'Morals of Legitimacy' (2001), over 25 articles and essays in outstanding peer-reviewed British and international journals, comments in quality papers, and several contributions to edited volumes.

• Contents: Introduction: corruption, morality and the law, Italo Pardo; Interés, morality and legality in Southern Spain, John Corbin; Where it hurts: an Italian case of graded and stratified corruption, Italo Pardo; Corruption between morality and legitimacy in the context of globalization, Arcibaldo Miller; 'The devil is not as wicked as people believe, neither is the Albanian': corruption between moral discourses and national identity, Giuliana B. Prato; Shanghaied by the bureaucracy: bribery and post-Soviet officialdom in Russia and Mongolia, Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath; Corruption in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, Jakob Rigi; Rotten talk: corruption as a part of discourse in contemporary Latvia, Klavs Sedlenieks; The 'Cancer of Corruption', Elizabeth Harrison; Corruption as the mirror of the State in Latin America, John Gledhill; Index.

’The case studies included would prove useful to anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists and other social scientists who in the future would be interested in approaching the ubiquity of corruption on a global scale.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute