This Publication Offers A New Perspective On The Ways In Which Trust And Distrust Have Functioned In Past Society, Providing An Empirical And Historical Basis Against Which The Present 'crisis Of Trust' Can Be Examined, And Suggesting Ways In Which The Concept Of Trust Can Be Used As A Tool To Understand Our Own And Other Societies. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English