Risk and blame: essays in cultural theory/
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London ; New York:
Routledge,
1992
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Risk and blame: 1. Risk and blame 2. Risk and justice 3. Risk and danger 4. Muffled ears 5. Witchcraft and leprosy: two strategies for rejection 6. The self as risk- taker: a cultural theory of contagion in relation to aids
- Part II. Wants and institutions: 7. The normative debate and the origins of cultural 8. Wants 9. No free gifts: Introductions to mauss's essay on the gift 10. Institutions of the third kind: British and Sweden labour markets compared 11. Autonomy and opportunism
- Part III. Believing and thinking: 12. Thought style exemplified: the idea of the self 13. Credibility 14. Acredible biosphere 15. The debate on women priests 16. The hotel Kwilu: A model of models
- Name index
- Subject index