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Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Current Anthropology Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) Current VOLUME 59 SUPPLEMENT 18 APRIL 2018 Cultures of Militarism. Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds. Patchy Anthropocene. Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Andrew Mathews, eds. Disability Worlds. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds. Anthropology Previously Published Supplementary Issues Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and Sally Engle Merry, eds. THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. April 2018 The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. Douglas Price and THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CORRUPTION Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds. The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, GUEST EDITORS: SARAH MUIR AND AKHIL GUPTA National Styles, and International Networks. Susan Lindee and Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds. The Anthropology of Corruption Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Aiello, eds. Rethinking the Anthropology of Corruption Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform Volume 59 Volume Contemporary Biomedicine. Klaus Hoeyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, eds. Corruption Now and Then: Managing Threats to the Nation in Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Twentieth-Century Peru Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Steven L. Kuhn and Erella Hovers, eds. The Unbearable Discretion of Street-Level Bureaucrats: Corruption and Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy. Susana Narotzky and Collusion in Hong Kong Niko Besnier, eds. Thinking with (Il)legality: The Ethics of Living with Bonanzas The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions. Joel Robbins Corrupt, Abusive, and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract Supplement 18 and Naomi Haynes, eds. New Brooms and Old: Sweeping Up Corruption in India, One Law at a Time Politics of the Urban Poor: Aesthetics, Ethics, Volatility, Precarity. Veena Das and Corruption and “Culture” in Anthropology and in Nigeria Shalini Randeria, eds. How Corrupt Are Universities? Audit Culture, Fraud Prevention, and The Life and Death of the Secret. Lenore Manderson, Mark Davis, and the Big Four Accountancy Firms Chip Colwell, eds. Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Reintegrating Anthropology: From Inside Out. Agustin Fuentes and Anti-corruption Polly Wiessner, eds. A Tale of Two Mayors: Configurations of Care and Corruption in Eastern New Media, New Publics? Charles Hirschkind, Maria José A. de Abreu, and Indonesian Direct District Head Elections Carlo Caduff, eds. Clientelism, Elections, and the Dialectic of Numerical People in Northeast Brazil Fire and the Genus Homo. Dennis Sandgathe and Francesca Berna, eds. A Ritual of Corruption: How Young Middle-Class South Africans Get Their Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene. Christopher J. Bae, Pages S1–S182 Pages Driver’s Licenses Katerina Douka, and Michael D. Petraglia, eds. Making Business Personal: Corruption, Anti-corruption, and Elite Networks Current Anthropology is sponsored by The in Post-Mao China Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Care and Suspicion: Corruption as Definition in Humanitarian Relations Research, a foundation endowed for scientific, Peasants, Experts, Clients, and Soybeans: The Fixing of Paraguay’s educational, and charitable purposes. 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Tele phone: (773) 753-3347 or toll-free in the United States Current Anthropology Volume 59 Supplement 18 April 2018 The Anthropology of Corruption Danilyn Rutherford The Anthropology of Corruption Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 18 S1 Sarah Muir and Akhil Gupta Rethinking the Anthropology of Corruption An Introduction to Supplement 18 S4 Jane Schneider Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform S16 David Nugent Corruption Now and Then: Managing Threats to the Nation in Twentieth-Century Peru S28 Alan Smart The Unbearable Discretion of Street-Level Bureaucrats: Corruption and Collusion in Hong Kong S37 Diana Bocarejo Thinking with (Il)legality: The Ethics of Living with Bonanzas S48 Italo Pardo Corrupt, Abusive, and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract S60 Aradhana Sharma New Brooms and Old: Sweeping Up Corruption in India, One Law at a Time S72 Daniel Jordan Smith Corruption and “Culture” in Anthropology and in Nigeria S83 Cris Shore How Corrupt Are Universities? Audit Culture, Fraud Prevention, and the Big Four Accountancy Firms S92 Smoki Musaraj Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Anti-corruption S105 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Sylvia Tidey A Tale of Two Mayors: Configurations of Care and Corruption in Eastern Indonesian Direct District Head Elections S117 Aaron Ansell Clientelism, Elections, and the Dialectic of Numerical People in Northeast Brazil S128 Julia Hornberger A Ritual of Corruption: How Young Middle-Class South Africans Get Their Driver’s Licenses S138 John Osburg Making Business Personal: Corruption, Anti-corruption, and Elite Networks in Post-Mao China S149 Ilana Feldman Care and Suspicion: Corruption as Definition in Humanitarian Relations S160 Kregg Hetherington Peasants, Experts, Clients, and Soybeans: The Fixing of Paraguay’s Civil Service S171 Current Anthropology Volume 59, Supplement 18, April 2018 S1 The Anthropology of Corruption Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 18 Danilyn Rutherford Corruption is in the eye of the beholder. And yet it makes for century Peru. Ilana Feldman came from George Mason Uni- an excellent focus of anthropological comparison, as the arti- versity with a paper showing how Palestinian refugees and hu- cles in this special issue of Current Anthropology make clear. manitarian workers have come together in relations of care and Articles that take a deep dive into changing notions of legiti- suspicion, and how their concerns about corruption prove crit- macy and how they shape what counts as corruption (Feldman ical in determining what humanitarianism is and should be. 2018; Pardo 2018; Schneider 2018). Articles about what cor- Alan Smart from the University of Calgary told a story from ruption means, and what it means to combat it in places