Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

by Frank K. Salter

Book Overview

Trust 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571813195
• ISBN13: 9781571813190
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"