Living with distrust morality and cooperation in a Romanian village / Radu Umbres.
| Author/creator | Umbres, Radu |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Foundations of human interaction |
| Contents | Prologue: Ripping the collective apart -- Introduction to Sateni -- From the serendipity of encounter to the structure of research -- Outline of an ethnography of distrust -- The deep play of tavern distrust -- The houses of trust, the fences of distrust -- Making and unmaking kinship -- Part 1. "Brother-brother, but cheese costs money" -- Part 2. Adapting relatedness to fairness -- Death and the regeneration of trust -- The political stability of social fragmentation -- Changes in the construction of trust -- To trust or not to trust. |
| Abstract | "Based on two years of fieldwork in a NE Romanian village, this book offers an ethnographic, interdisciplinary interpretation of social interactions in a low trust society. In Sateni, cooperation with unrelated or unfamiliar partners fails to take off while distrust permeates everyday life and cultural representations. This book argues that the costs of misplaced trust restricted Sateni moral expectations and cooperative practices to family, kinship, and friendship ties. Household autarchy and personalized morality offered an optimal strategy against political, ecological or social unpredictability. Trust appears by social agreement around cultural representations of moral behavior, persists by social interdependence, and collapses when interests misalign. Outside family-centric social relationships lies a struggle for scarce resources of land, money or prestige, with deception or predation lurking around every corner. Kinship, economy, politics, and rituals are organised around the distinction between the mutualism of trusted partners and perennial competition against the rest of the world. This ethnography analyses the intersection of ecology, history, traditions, social organisation, technology, and evolved human dispositions for cooperation and conflict which create and change a culture of distrust"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021046215 |
| ISBN | 9780190869908 (Hardback) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |