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oapen-20.500.12657-305382023-01-31T18:45:43Z Mistrust Carey, Matthew Anthropology Mistrust Trust Doubt Suspicion Uncertainty Morocco Eastern Europe Melanesia Conspiracy theory High Atlas Kinship Witchcraft Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and holds society itself together. There is scant space within this vision for a nuanced discussion of mistrust. With few exceptions, it is treated as little more than a corrosive absence. This monograph, instead, proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust as a legitimate epistemological stance in its own right. It examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, as well as politics and cooperation, and suggests that suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty can also ground ways of organizing human society and cooperating with others. 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-26 03:00:33 2020-04-01T13:00:35Z 2020-04-01T13:00:35Z 2017-11-01 book 645369 OCN: 1030816522 9780997367522 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30538 eng Malinowski Monographs application/pdf n/a 645369.pdf HAU Books 101684 b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780997367522 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Chicago, IL USA 101684 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and holds society itself together. There is scant space within this vision for a nuanced discussion of mistrust. With few exceptions, it is treated as little more than a corrosive absence. This monograph, instead, proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust as a legitimate epistemological stance in its own right. It examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, as well as politics and cooperation, and suggests that suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty can also ground ways of organizing human society and cooperating with others.
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