Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Corruption and the Secret of Law: An Introduction -- SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTION AND BUREAUCRATIC ITINERARIES -- 2 Hidden Acts, Open Talks. How Anthropology Can "Observe" and Describe Corruption -- 3 Deep Corruption in Indonesia: Discourses, Practices, Histories -- 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 -- 5 Corrupted Files: Cross-fading Defense Strategies of a Vesuvian Lawyer -- CORRUPTION ACCUSATIONS AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES -- 6 Corruption Narratives and the Power of Concealment: The Case of Burundi's Civil War -- 7 The Orchestration of Corruption and Excess Enjoyment in Western Mexico -- STATE OFFICIALS IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE -- 8 Corruption or Social Capital? Tact and the Performance of Guanxi in Market Socialist China -- 9 Corruption in the US Borderlands with Mexico: The "Purity" of Society and the "Perversity" of Borders -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.