Risk and Blame

Risk and Blame
ISBN-10
0415291151
ISBN-13
9780415291156
Series
Risk and Blame
Category
Social Science
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Mary Douglas

Description

First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first half of the book Douglas argues that the study of risk needs a systematic framework of political and cultural comparison. In the latter half she examines questions in cultural theory. Through the eleven essays contained in Risk and Blame, Douglas argues that the prominence of risk discourse will force upon the social sciences a programme of rethinking and consolidation that will include anthropological approaches.

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