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Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
Michael Herzfeld
ISBN: 9780226329086
Format: Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
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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…
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
| ISBN | 0226329089 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9780226329086
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University of Chicago Press | | Weight (grammes) | 296 | | Imprint | University of Chicago Press | | Published in | Chicago, IL | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 1993 | | Width (mm) | 142 | | Library of Congress | HM141.H47 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY | 302.309 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC12A | |
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