Introduction Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the state in everyday life

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-10

  Bernstein, Anya ^a   Mertz, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 84861791104     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2011.01135.x     Document Type: Editorial

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