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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817760003321

Titolo

The ways of friendship : anthropological perspectives / / edited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

0-85745-825-6

1-282-75290-1

9786612752902

1-84545-850-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DesaiAmit

KillickEvan

Disciplina

144

Soggetti

Friendship

Humanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Ways of Friendship; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction-Valuing Friendship; Chapter 1-On 'Same-Year Siblings' in Rural South China; Chapter 2-Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia; Chapter 3-Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican Refugees in South Africa; Chapter 4-Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Town; Chapter 5-A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India; Chapter 6-Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in Children's Peer Relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India

Chapter 7-Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche PersonChapter 8-The Value of Friendship: Subject/Object Transformations in the Economy of Becoming a Person (Bermondsey, Southeast London); Afterword-Making Friendship Impure: Some Reflections on a (Still) Neglected Topic; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnograp