Compliance

<p> Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation corporate governance medicine development carbon offsetting irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.</p>