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.
Table of Content
Preface
Introduction: Introducing Ethnographies of Trusting
Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes
Chapter 1. Unfixed trust: Intimacy, blood symbolism, and porous boundaries in Guatemala
Margit Ystanes
Chapter 2. Witchcraft: the Dangers of Intimacy and the Struggle over Trust
Peter Geschiere
Chapter 3. Trusting the untrustworthy: a Mongolian challenge to Western notions of trust
Paula Haas
Chapter 4. The Puzzle of the Animal Witch: Intimacy, Trust and Sociality among Pastoral Turkana
Vigdis Broch-Due
Chapter 5. ‘Sharing secrets’: Gendered landscapes of trust and intimacy in Kenya’s digital financial marketplace
Misha Mintz-Roth and Amrik Heyer
Chapter 6. Eddies of distrust: ‘False’ birth certificates and the destabilisation of relationships
Jennifer M Speirs
Chapter 7. Intimate documents: trust and secret police files in post-socialist Mongolia
Chris Kaplonski
Chapter 8. Trustworthy Bodies: Cashinahua Cumulative Persons as Intimate Others
Cecilia Mc Callum
Chapter 9. Habitus of Trust: Servitude in Colonial India
Radhika Chopra
Chapter 10. ‘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
About the author
Margit Ystanes is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science and History at Volda University College.
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