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Trusting and its tribulations : interdisciplinary engagements with intimacy, sociality and trust /

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 foundatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Broch-Due, Vigdis (Editor ), Ystanes, Margit (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.