The nature of institutions is nothing but their coming into being ( nascimento ) at certain times and in certain guises. Whenever the time and guise are thus and so, such and not otherwise are the institutions that come into being—Vico, The New Science.
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Marshall Sahlins (1983) studied this question.
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