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Risky transactions : trust, kinship, and ethnicity
- Title
- Risky transactions : trust, kinship, and ethnicity / edited by Frank K. Salter.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN365.9 .R57 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Salter, Frank K.
- Description
- xv, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1571817107
- 9781571817105
- 1571813195
- 9781571813190
- LCCN
- 2001052719
- OCLC
- ocm48390722
- 48390722
- SCSB-1261269
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library