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100			_aSchott, Richard L.
245			_aThe origins of bureaucracy: an anthropological perspective
260			_c2000
300			_ap.53-78
362			_aJan
520			_aMany decades have passed since the first appearance of Max Weber's seminal study, in Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft, of the origins and characteristics of bureaucracy. His analysis was, naturally, dependent on the existing knowledge of his day; but the growth and maturity of archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines have shed much new light on the historical and social contexts in which bureaucratic organizations emerged. This article, using Sumerian civilization as a case in point, summarizes much of what we now know about the conditions under which bureaucracy first originated and flourished. In so doing, it identifies several major human developmental and social transformations - the hominid revolution, the agrarian revolution, and the urban revolution - which played vital roles in the evolution and expansion of the bureaucratic form of organization. - Reproduced
650			_aBureaucracy
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a44476
999			_c44476 _d44476