Hierarchy and society : anthropological perspectives on bureaucracy / Gerald M. Britan and Ronald Cohen, editors. - Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, c1980. - vi, 186 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Britan, G. M. and Cohen, R. Introduction.--Britan, G. M. and Cohen, R. Towards an anthropology of formal organizations.--Nader, L. The vertical slice, hierarchies and children.--Schwartzman, H. B. The bureaucratic context of a community mental health center.--Britan, G. M. and Chibnik, M. Bureaucracy and innovation, an American case.--Cohen, R. The blessed job in Nigeria.--Rosen, C. B. The dynamics of provincial administration in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, 1930-1974.--Whyte, M. K. Bureaucracy and antibureaucracy in the People's Republic of China.--Newman, K. Incipient bureaucracy, the development of hierarchies in egalitarian organizations.--Denich, B. Bureaucratic scholarship, the new anthropology.

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Organizational sociology.
Bureaucracy.

HM131 / .H514

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