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Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 percep. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780203430866 0203430867 1138126616 9781138126619 0415119995 9780415119993 9781282778450 1282778455 |