Trusting and its Tribulations

Trusting and its TribulationsDespite 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

Chile and Costa Rica

Recognizing women's bodies as a site of struggle for autonomy

and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity

it makes use of a wealth of material from immigrants whose everyday speech and intellectual discourse were not in the English language

Definitive study of the NLRB as an administrative agency which became one of the most important political and legal developments in the last century as it influenced the growth of a national labor policy and the use of administrative processes and legal methods in U

“Their hearts have not grown old

Bringing these topics to life are companion “Applying the Concepts” chapters demonstrating how these principles are directly applied in real-life situations

Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti

I settled down as gently as a dove alights

flavus and A

liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous and unplanned performances and to develop unique personal musical systems

in what became a fight for his adopted homeland and a bicontinental showdown