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Title Audit cultures : anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy / edited by Marilyn Strathern
Published London : Routledge, 2000

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Description x, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Series European Association of Social Anthropologists
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
Contents Introduction: new accountabilities / Marilyn Strathern -- 1. The social organization of the IMF's mission work: an examination of international auditing / Richard Harper -- 2. Coercive accountability: the rise of audit culture in higher education / Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- 3. Generic genius - how does it all add up? / Eleanor Rimoldi -- 4. Accountability, anthropology and the European Commission / Maryon McDonald -- 5. The trickster's dilemma: ethics and the technologies of the anthropological self / Peter Pels -- 6. Audited accountability and the imperative of responsibility: beyond the primacy of the political / Ananta Giri -- 7. Self-accountability, ethics and the problem of meaning / Vassos Argyrou -- 8. The university as panopticon: moral claims and attacks on academic freedom / Vered Amit -- 9. Academia: same pressures, same conditions of work? / Thomas Fillitz
10. Disciples, discipline and reflection: anthropological encounters and trajectories / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou -- Afterword: accountability... and ethnography / Marilyn Strathern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education, Higher -- Evaluation -- Social aspects.
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Educational accountability -- Social aspects.
Educational anthropology.
Author Strathern, Marilyn.
European Association of Social Anthropologists.
LC no. 00028073
ISBN 0415233267
0415233275 (paperback)