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By Michael Herzfeld

Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies aren't any extra "rational" or much less "symbolic" than the societies frequently studied through anthropologists. He means that we won't comprehend nationwide bureaucracies divorced from local-level principles approximately likelihood, own personality, social relationships and responsibility.

"Herzfeld's ebook is intensely formidable and should be of curiosity to any anthropologist focused on the research of paperwork, organizational and institutional regulate, symbols and their energy, and social clash. . . . considerate and challenging."—Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist

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