Table of Contents
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
