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Risky transactions : trust, kinship, and ethnicity

Title
  1. Risky transactions : trust, kinship, and ethnicity / edited by Frank K. Salter.
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  1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Salter, Frank K.
Description
  1. xv, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Sociobiology
  2. Kinship
  3. Ethnicity
  4. Risk-taking (Psychology)
  5. Altruism
  6. Risk-Taking
  7. Altruism
  8. kinship
  9. ethnicity
  10. Ethnische Identität
  11. Verwandtschaft
  12. Volkskunde
  13. Vertrouwen
  14. Altruïsme
  15. Verwantschap
  16. Etnisch bewustzijn
  17. Risico nemen
Contents
  1. Ethnography. Taking the risk out of risky transactions / Polly Wiessner -- Psychological mechanisms. Kith-and kin rationality in risky choices / X.T. Wang -- Altruism begins at home / Eugene Burnstein, Christine Branigan, and Grazyna Wieczorkowska-Nejtardt. Risky business, ellicit and licit. Mafia and blood symbolism / Anton Blok -- Cognitive and classificatory foundations of trust and informal institutions / Janet T. Landa. Oppressed families and minorities. Risky transactions under a totalitarian regime / Carmen Strungaru -- Strategies for mitigating risk among Jewish groups / Kevin MacDonald. AIDS, the U.S. Supreme Court, and tourism. Ethnicity, transactional risk of HIV, and male homosexual partnering behaviour / James N. Schubert and Margaret Ann Curran -- Dialect, sex and risk effects on judge's questioning of counsel in Supreme Court oral argument / James N. Schubert [and others]. -- Risk and deceit in transient, non-repeated interactions / Pierre L. van den Berghe. Evolutionary syntheses. Ethnic solidarity as risk avoidance / Peter Meyer -- Ethnic nepotism as a two-edged sword / Frank K. Salter.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.