Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. From Mafia to freedom fighters: Questions
raised by ethology and sociobiology
Frank K. Salter
PART II: ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 2. Taking the risk out of risky transactions: A
forager's dilemma
Polly Wiessner
PART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
Chapter 3. Kith-and-kin rationality in risky choices:
Theoretical modeling and cross-cultural empirical testing
X.T.Wang
Chapter 4. Altruism begins at home: Evidence for a kin
selection heuristic sensitive to the costs and benefits of
helping
Eugene Burnstein, Christine Branigan and Grazyna
Wieczorkowska-Nejtardt
PART IV: RISKY BUSINESS, ILLICIT AND LICIT
Chapter 5. Mafia and blood symbolism
Anton Blok
Chapter 6. Cognitive and classificatory foundations of
trust and informal institutions: A new and expanded theory of
ethnic trading networks
Janet T. Landa
PART V: OPPRESSED FAMILIES AND MINORITIES
Chapter 7. Risky transactions under a totalitarian
regime: The Romanian case
Carmen Strungaru
Chapter 8. Strategies for mitigating risk among Jewish
groups
Kevin MacDonald
PART VI: AIDS, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, AND TOURISM
Chapter 9. Ethnicity, transactional risk of HIV, and male
homosexual partnering behaviour
James N. Schubert and Margaret Ann Curran
Chapter 10. Dialect, sex and risk effects on judges'
questioning of counsel in Supreme Court oral argument
James N. Schubert, Steven A. Peterson, Glendon Schubert and Stephen
L .Wasby
Chapter 11. Risk and deceit in transient, non-repeated
interactions: The case of tourism
Pierre L. van den Berghe
PART VII: EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESES
Chapter 12. Ethnic solidarity as risk avoidance: An
evolutionary view
Peter Meyer
Chapter 13. Ethnic nepotism as a two-edged sword: The
risk-mitigating role of ethnicity among mafiosi, nationalist
fighters, middlemen, and dissidents
Frank K. Salter
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
Frank K. Salter is a Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology and the Center for Human Sciences, University of Munich.
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