Survey fraud found in the revival of culture (14)
I believe the answer is:
reconnaissance
'survey' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'fraud found in the revival of culture' is the wordplay.
'fraud' becomes 'con' (con is a kind of fraud).
'found in' is an insertion indicator.
'the revival of culture' becomes 'renaissance' (I've seen this before).
'con' placed into 'renaissance' is 'RECONNAISSANCE'.
(Other definitions for reconnaissance that I've seen before include "Scouting" , "Preliminary survey" , "Military observation" , "Initial survey" .)