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
and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically
focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping
fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and
bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is
a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine
the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and
temptations to defect.
By exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism
and showing its sensitivity to culture, Risky Transactions recasts
the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and
instrumental factors.
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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