1st Edition
The Social Production of Indifference Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
By Michael Herzfeld
Copyright 1992
220 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance,... Read more
The social production of indifference; one world or two?; the roots of indifference; the creativity of stereotypes; the language fetish; retrospective fatalities; declassifications.
Biography
Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
