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Informationen zum Autor Mary Douglas's literary executor, Richard Fardon, is Professor of West African Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. A former student of Mary Douglas, his intellectual biography of her was published by Routledge in 1999, and updated by a Memoir in the Proceedings of the British Academy Memoir, 2010. Richard Fardon is Professor of West African Anthropology and Head of the Doctoral School at SOAS, University of London. He writes as a social anthropologist and an ethnographer of West Africa with wide interests that include art, intellectual history, religion, politics, and identity. Klappentext Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collection of her latest essays on culture, previously uncollected, from the last decade and a half of her life. Zusammenfassung Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collection of her latest essays on culture! previously uncollected! from the last decade and a half of her life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: How Cultures Precipitate Risk and Resolution - Richard Fardon PART ONE: CULTURAL THEORY The Language of Emotions in the Social Sciences Emotion and Culture in Theories of Justice Institutions: Problems of Theory Four Cultures: The Evolution of a Parsimonious Model PART TWO: CULTURE AND CLIMATE Human Needs and Wants - with Des Gasper, Steven Ney and Michael Thompson Is Time Running out? The Case of Global Warming - with Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change - with Marco Verweij et al An Aesthetic View of the Relation between Culture and Nature Postscript: The Future of Clumsiness - Christoph Engel, Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij PART THREE: INSTITUTIONALIZED RISKS The Risks of the Risk Officer Dangerization and the End of Deviance: The Institutional Environment - with Michalis Lianos Postscript - Michalis Lianos Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game - with Gerald Mars Postscript - Gerald Mars Being Fair to Hierarchists Traditional Culture: Let¿s Hear no More about It Endpiece: The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde ...
