A01=Michael Herzfeld
Author_Michael Herzfeld
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226329086
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1993
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. "Herzfeld's book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutional control, symbols and their power, and social conflict...Thoughtful and challenging."--Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist
