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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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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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.