ethnography is from Geertz’s “Common sense as a cultural system” (1975) and The Interpretation of Cultures (1973). Findings This …

, as well as Clifford Geertz’s cultural theories. Findings A cross-comparison between the findings and relevant literature … aims to combine both earlier and recent theories of institutionalism with Clifford Geertz’s cultural theory, to investigate …

problem. But as Clifford Geertz put it, an institution such as a toll for safe passage is “rather more than a mere payment …