Risk and blame : essays in cultural theory / / Mary Douglas
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| Autore: |
Douglas Mary <1921-2007., >
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| Titolo: |
Risk and blame : essays in cultural theory / / Mary Douglas
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.12 |
| Soggetto topico: | Risk - Sociological aspects |
| Risk perception | |
| Risk assessment | |
| Culture | |
| Note generali: | Paperback edition published in 1994 by Routledge. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; RISK AND BLAME; RISK AND JUSTICE; RISK AND DANGER; MUFFLED EARS; WITCHCRAFT AND LEPROSY: TWO STRATEGIES FOR REJECTION; THE SELF AS RISK-TAKER: A CULTURAL THEORY OF CONTAGION IN RELATION TO AIDS; THE NORMATIVE DEBATE AND THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE; WANTS; NO FREE GIFTS: INTRODUCTION TO MAUSS'S ESSAY ON THE GIFT; INSTITUTIONS OF THE THIRD KIND: BRITISH AND SWEDISH LABOUR MARKETS COMPARED; AUTONOMY AND OPPORTUNISM; THOUGHT STYLE EXEMPLIFIED: THE IDEA OF THE SELF; CREDIBILITY; A CREDIBLE BIOSPHERE; THE DEBATE ON WOMEN PRIESTS |
| THE HOTEL KWILU: A MODEL OF MODELS Name index; Subject index; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risk and blame |
| ISBN: | 1-134-81119-5 |
| 1-134-81120-9 | |
| 1-282-77845-5 | |
| 9786612778452 | |
| 0-203-43086-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816362103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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