Embeddedness and informal norms: Institutionalisms and anthropology

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 280-299

  Sardan, Jean Pierre Olivier de ^a  

^a LASDEL BP ^*  (Niger)

Author keywords

anthropology of public action; culture; embeddedness; informal institutions; Institutionalism; new institutional economics; norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883271766     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X13490307     Document Type: Article

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