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Anthropology and Risk

Anthropology and Risk

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

Business GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415745616
ISBN13: 9780415745611
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2015
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry.

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