Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (Volume 0) George Kalogerakis ASIN: 0933999372

ASIN: 0933999372

1759 pages

Starting from the very beginning

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Yet this is not the case

Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (Volume 0) George Kalogerakis ASIN: 0933999372Risk 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