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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827830003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-100-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

302.14

Soggetti

Trust - Social aspects

Social interaction

Intimacy (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Trusting and its Tribulations ; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Unfixed Trust ; 2 Witchcraft ; 3 Trusting the Untrustworthy ; 4 The Puzzle of the Animal Witch ; 5 'Sharing Secrets' ; 6 Eddies of Distrust ; 7 Intimate Documents ; 8 Trustworthy Bodies ; 9 Habitus of Trust ; 10 'You Can Tell the Company We Done Quit' ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.