Böcker av Eric Hirsch

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.

Now available in paperback, this book takes a fresh look at the social and cultural implications of the new reproductive technologies and assisted conception. It has already attracted a wide readership in anthropology, sociology and health.