Risk and Blame

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Psychology Press, 2003 - 323 sidor

First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first half of the book Douglas argues that the study of risk needs a systematic framework of political and cultural comparison. In the latter half she examines questions in cultural theory. Through the eleven essays contained in Risk and Blame, Douglas argues that the prominence of risk discourse will force upon the social sciences a programme of rethinking and consolidation that will include anthropological approaches.

 

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RISK AND BLAME
3
RISK AND JUSTICE
22
RISK AND DANGER
38
MUFFLED EARS
55
WITCHCRAFT AND LEPROSY Two strategies for rejection
83
THE SELF AS RISKTAKER A cultural theory of contagion in relation to AIDS
102
WANTS AND INSTITUTIONS
123
THE NORMATIVE DEBATE AND THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE
125
AUTONOMY AND OPPORTUNISM
187
BELIEVING AND THINKING
209
THOUGHT STYLE EXEMPLIFIED The idea of the self
211
CREDIBILITY
235
A CREDIBLE BIOSPHERE
255
THE DEBATE ON WOMEN PRIESTS
271
THE HOTEL KWILU A model of models
295
NAME INDEX
314

WANTS
149
NO FREE GIFTS Introduction to Mausss essay on The Gift
155
INSTITUTIONS OF THE THIRD KIND British and Swedish labour markets compared
167
SUBJECT INDEX
318
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Risk and Blame
Professor Mary Douglas,Mary Douglas
Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2013
Risk and Blame
Professor Mary Douglas,Mary Douglas
Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2013

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Om författaren (2003)

Born in Italy, Mary Douglas was educated at Oxford University and began her career as a civil servant in 1943. Her first field research was carried out in what was then the Belgian Congo and she taught at Oxford and the University of London before moving to the United States in 1977. Purity and Danger (1966) is an essay about the logic of pollution beliefs, suggesting that ideas about dirt and disorder outline and reinforce particular social orders. Her other essays exploring the implicit meanings of cultural symbols follow a similar Durkheimian format. Her recent interests have turned to analysis of risk behavior and cross-cultural attitudes about food and alcohol.

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TitelRisk and Blame
Volym 12 av Collected Works: Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory, Mary Douglas
Volym 12 av Collected works, Mary Douglas
Volym 12 av Mary Douglas: Collected Works, Mary Douglas, ISBN 0415283973, 9780415283977
Volym 12 av Selections, Mary Douglas
Volym 12 av Works, Mary Douglas
FörfattareMary Douglas
Utgåvanytryck
UtgivarePsychology Press, 2003
ISBN0415291151, 9780415291156
Längd323 sidor
  
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