Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the fe
Until recently, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In this work, one of the few such works to appear in recent
EURAM's Book of the Year in 2020, Hierarchy takes readers on a journey which traverses how this idea has evolved, is understood in various disciplines, and is a
The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then sho
Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchica