Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

This impressive volume stands as a powerful corrective to latent ethnocentric tendencies lying at the heart of much contemporary scholarship on the nature of trust Instead of identifying trust with the intimacies of family life, or attributing it to the conscious calculations of risk-averse individuals, this manuscript reveals the importance of approaching trust as something performed. Sharon Hutchinson, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison See more