Bureaucrats, Budgets, and the BIA: Segmentary Opposition in a Residential School.

Colfer, Carol J. Pierce

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Publication Date: 1975

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Bureaucrats, Budgets, and the BIA: Segmentary Opposition in a Residential School

Colfer, Carol J. Pierce

Human Organization, 34, 2, 149-56, Sum 75

The article describes the political system which operates in an American Indian school and discusses the striking analogy between the school's bureaucratic structure and operation and the structure and operation of a segmentary lineage system. (AUTHOR/NQ)

Descriptors: American Indians, Bureaucracy, Comparative Analysis, Power Structure, Program Budgeting, Residential Schools, School Organization, Social Structure

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