{"product_id":"risky-transactions-trust-kinship-and-ethnicity-9781571817105","title":"Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tTrust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these types of trust is examined by a leading scholar and compared with the expectations of neo-Darwinian theory, in particular the theories of kin selection and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and temptations to defect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBy exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism and showing its sensitivity to culture, \u003ci\u003eRisky Transactions\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and instrumental factors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: INTRODUCTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e From Mafia to freedom fighters: Questions raised by ethology and sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFrank K. Salter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: ETHNOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Taking the risk out of risky transactions: A forager's dilemma\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePolly Wiessner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Kith-and-kin rationality in risky choices: Theoretical modeling and cross-cultural empirical testing\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eX.T.Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Altruism begins at home: Evidence for a kin selection heuristic sensitive to the costs and benefits of helping\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEugene Burnstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristine Branigan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrazyna Wieczorkowska-Nejtardt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: RISKY BUSINESS, ILLICIT AND LICIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Mafia and blood symbolism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnton Blok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Cognitive and classificatory foundations of trust and informal institutions: A new and expanded theory of ethnic trading networks\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJanet T. Landa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: OPPRESSED FAMILIES AND MINORITIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Risky transactions under a totalitarian regime: The Romanian case\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCarmen Strungaru\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Strategies for mitigating risk among Jewish groups\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKevin MacDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART VI: AIDS, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, AND TOURISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnicity, transactional risk of HIV, and male homosexual partnering behaviour\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJames N. Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMargaret Ann Curran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Dialect, sex and risk effects on judges' questioning of counsel in Supreme Court oral argument\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJames N. Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSteven A. Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlendon Schubert\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStephen L .Wasby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Risk and deceit in transient, non-repeated interactions: The case of tourism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePierre L. van den Berghe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART VII: EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnic solidarity as risk avoidance: An evolutionary view\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePeter Meyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnic nepotism as a two-edged sword: The risk-mitigating role of ethnicity among mafiosi, nationalist fighters, middlemen, and dissidents\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFrank K. Salter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041427587415,"sku":"9781571817105","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571817105.jpg?v=1750950238","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/risky-transactions-trust-kinship-and-ethnicity-9781571817105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}