Anthropology of politics and “audit culture”: ethnography of mental health finance policy

Abstract

This text intends to describe how the ethnographic material on mental health financing leads to a bibliographical review about the way the policy and audit culture are produced. More specifically, I will discuss how the research interlocutors produce funding policy through a co-management agreement. For this discussion, I will use studies on anthropology of politics. Moreover, I will present contributions from Marilyn Strathern and Cris Shore to the debate, as they develop reflections to understand the auditing culture. This article’s idea is to examine the way theoretical and bibliographic discussions emerge from this ethnographic research field.