Trusting and its tribulations : interdisciplinary engagements with intimacy, sociality and trust / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broch-Due, Vigdis, editor.

Ystanes, Margit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trust--Social aspects--Case studies.

Trust.

Social interaction--Case studies.

Social interaction.

Intimacy (Psychology)--Case studies.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Trust--Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, [2016]

Summary:

Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : introducing ethnographies of trusting / Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes

Unfixed trust : intimacy, blood symbolism, and porous boundaries in Guatemala / Margit Ystanes

Witchcraft : the dangers of intimacy and the struggle over trust / Peter Geschiere

Trusting the untrustworthy : a Mongolian challenge to Western notions of trust / Paula Haas

The puzzle of the animal witch : intimacy, trust and sociality among pastoral Turkana / Vigdis Broch-Due

"Sharing secrets" : gendered landscapes of trust and intimacy in Kenya's digital financial marketplace / Misha Mintz-Roth and Amrik Heyer

Eddies of distrust : "false" birth certificates and the destabilisation of relationships / Jennifer M Speirs

Intimate documents : trust and secret police files in post-socialist Mongolia / Chris Kaplonski

Trustworthy bodies : Cashinahua cumulative persons as intimate others / Cecilia McCallum

Habitus of trust : servitude in colonial India / Radhika Chopra

"You can tell the company we done quit" : the destruction and reconfiguration of trust in the Appalachian coalfields in the early twentieth century / Gloria Goodwin Raheja.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785330995

1785330993

OCLC:

916736894