Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
, by Strathern,Marilyn
- ISBN: 9780415233279 | 0415233275
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 9/8/2000
If cultures are always in the making, this book catches one kind of culture on the make. Academics will be familiar with audit in the form of research and teaching assessments - they may not be aware how pervasive practices of 'accountability' are or of the diversity of political regimes under which they flourish. Twelve social anthropologists from across Europe and the Commonwealth chart an influential and controversial cultural phenomenon.
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