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The ways of friendship : anthropological perspectives /

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Desai, Amit, 1977- (Editor ), Killick, Evan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Valuing friendship / Evan Killick, Amit Desai
  • On 'same-year siblings' in rural south China / Gonçalo D. Santos
  • Ayompari, compadre, amigo : forms of fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia / Evan Killick
  • Friendship, distance and kinship-talk amongst Mozambican refugees in South Africa / Graeme Rodgers
  • Friendship, kinship and sociality in a Lebanese town / Michelle Obeid
  • A matter of affection : ritual friendship in central India / Amit Desai
  • Close friends : the importance of proximity in children's peer relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India / Peggy Proffer
  • Making friends, making oneself : friendship and the Maputhe person / Magnus Course
  • The value of friendship : subject/object transformations in the economy of becoming a person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) / Gillian Evans
  • Afterword : making friendship impure : some reflections on a (still) neglected topic / Simon Coleman.