The ways of friendship : anthropological perspectives /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Desai, Amit, 1977- (Editor), Killick, Evan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Subjects:
Friendship > Congresses.
Humanism > Congresses.
Amitié > Congrès.
Humanisme > Congrès.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Friendship.
Humanism.
Vriendschap.
Antropologische aspecten.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congressen (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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