Professions and Social Order: Markets, States and Healers in Burkina Faso

Robert Dingwall (Nottingham Trent University, UK),Natewinde Sawadogo (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 December 2023
Pages
192
ISBN
9781138679832

Professions and Social Order: Markets, States and Healers in Burkina Faso

Robert Dingwall (Nottingham Trent University, UK),Natewinde Sawadogo (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

This study asks a fundamental theoretical and empirical question–re-posing and re-contextualizing in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa: can markets generate the institutions on which they depend for their effectiveness, or do these require the active intervention of a strong, purposeful and democratic state?

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