The Social Production of Indifference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226329086)

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

Author: Michael Herzfeld
ISBN-10: 0226329089
ISBN-13: 9780226329086
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.59w x 0.56d