03316nam 2200649Ia 450 991078545410332120170815145138.00-85745-825-61-282-75290-197866127529021-84545-850-810.1515/9781845458508(CKB)2670000000061213(EBL)583667(OCoLC)813231074(SSID)ssj0000444121(PQKBManifestationID)11925860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444121(PQKBWorkID)10468926(PQKB)10271921(MiAaPQ)EBC583667(DE-B1597)635972(DE-B1597)9781845458508(OCoLC)669248713(EXLCZ)99267000000006121320100430d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ways of friendship[electronic resource] anthropological perspectives /edited by Amit Desai and Evan KillickNew York Berghahn Books20101 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-792-6 1-84545-731-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 IndiaChapter 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 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 ethnograpFriendshipHumanismAnthropology (General), Sociology, Cultural Studies (General).Friendship.Humanism.144302.34Desai Amit1499363Killick Evan1499364MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785454103321The ways of friendship3725349UNINA