ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |121 pages
Rish and Blame
chapter |19 pages
Risk and Blame 1
chapter |16 pages
Risk and Justice
chapter |17 pages
Risk and Danger
chapter |28 pages
Muffled Ears
part |85 pages
Wants and Institutions
chapter |24 pages
The Normative Debate and the Origins of Culture
chapter |6 pages
Wants
chapter |21 pages
Autonomy and Opportunism
part |105 pages
Believing and Thinking