Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History

Marshall Sahlins

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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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