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anthropological perspectives on risk
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Criter Ion
cultural bias analysis
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Fetish Power
Gerald Mars
HIV Positive
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Insidious Harm
institutional trust dynamics
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Make Up
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Normative Debate
Nuptial Mystery
Pope Alexander III
Port Authorities
public policy accountability
qualitative risk assessment
Radical Scepticism
risk perception models
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415119993
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.
