Risky Transactions

Frank K. Salter is a Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology and the Center for Human Sciences, University of Munich.

• AcknowledgementsPART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. From Mafia to freedom fighters: Questions raised by ethology and sociobiologyFrank K. SalterPART II: ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 2. Taking the risk out of risky transactions: A forager's dilemmaPolly WiessnerPART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMSChapter 3. Kith-and-kin rationality in risky choices: Theoretical modeling and cross-cultural empirical testingX.T.WangChapter 4. Altruism begins at home: Evidence for a kin selection heuristic sensitive to the costs and benefits of helpingEugene Burnstein, Christine Branigan and Grazyna Wieczorkowska-NejtardtPART IV: RISKY BUSINESS, ILLICIT AND LICITChapter 5. Mafia and blood symbolismAnton BlokChapter 6. Cognitive and classificatory foundations of trust and informal institutions: A new and expanded theory of ethnic trading networksJanet T. LandaPART V: OPPRESSED FAMILIES AND MINORITIESChapter 7. Risky transactions under a totalitarian regime: The Romanian caseCarmen StrungaruChapter 8. Strategies for mitigating risk among Jewish groupsKevin MacDonaldPART VI: AIDS, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, AND TOURISMChapter 9. Ethnicity, transactional risk of HIV, and male homosexual partnering behaviourJames N. Schubert and Margaret Ann CurranChapter 10. Dialect, sex and risk effects on judges' questioning of counsel in Supreme Court oral argumentJames N. Schubert, Steven A. Peterson, Glendon Schubert and Stephen L .WasbyChapter 11. Risk and deceit in transient, non-repeated interactions: The case of tourismPierre L. van den BerghePART VII: EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESESChapter 12. Ethnic solidarity as risk avoidance: An evolutionary viewPeter MeyerChapter 13. Ethnic nepotism as a two-edged sword: The risk-mitigating role of ethnicity among mafiosi, nationalist fighters, middlemen, and dissidentsFrank K. SalterNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex