Dead zones of the imagination: On violence, bureaucracy, and interpretive labor. The Malinowski Memorial Lecture, 2006

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-128

  Graeber, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Ignorance; Imagination; Knowledge; Simplification; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892174970     PISSN: 20491115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau2.2.007     Document Type: Article

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