http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51534 Search the Channel search http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58595 Title: The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in a Pakistan Bureaucracy <br/> <br/>Authors: Hull, Matthew S <br/> <br/>Abstract: This article develops an approach to contemporary governance as a communicative practice fundamentally organized by ‘‘graphic artifacts’’—materials such as files, maps, letters, reports,and office manuals. The empirical focus is the role of graphic artifacts in bureaucratic institutions in Islamabad, Pakistan. Departing from functionalist accounts of bureaucracy and from approaches to governmental writing centered on reference and predication, the article describes the use of graphic artifacts, particularly files, in the ritual construction of collective bureaucratic authority and agents. This authority protects individuals and allows particular projects to be collectivized. The article highlights the relationship between, on one hand, the material qualities and dispositions of artifacts and, on the other hand, the semiotic processes they mediate. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58544 Title: "From sweet ptatoes to God almighty": Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog <br/> <br/>Authors: Hoey, Brian A.; Fricke, Tom http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58049 Title: A taste shared: Reflecting John Hitchcock and the good in fieldwork <br/> <br/>Authors: Fricke, Tom http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58048 Title: Marriage change as moral change: Culture, virtue, and demographic transition <br/> <br/>Authors: Fricke, Tom