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Paperback Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory Book

ISBN: 0415119995

ISBN13: 9780415119993

Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory

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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...

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