The Social Production of Indifference(English, Paperback, Herzfeld Michael)

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The Social Production of Indifference(English, Paperback, Herzfeld Michael) is written by Herzfeld Michael and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226329089 (ISBN 10) and 9780226329086 (ISBN 13).

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