LEADER 03316nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910785454103321 005 20170815145138.0 010 $a0-85745-825-6 010 $a1-282-75290-1 010 $a9786612752902 010 $a1-84545-850-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781845458508 035 $a(CKB)2670000000061213 035 $a(EBL)583667 035 $a(OCoLC)813231074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000444121 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444121 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10468926 035 $a(PQKB)10271921 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC583667 035 $a(DE-B1597)635972 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781845458508 035 $a(OCoLC)669248713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000061213 100 $a20100430d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe ways of friendship$b[electronic resource] $eanthropological perspectives /$fedited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85745-792-6 311 $a1-84545-731-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $a 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 606 $aFriendship 606 $aHumanism 610 $aAnthropology (General), Sociology, Cultural Studies (General). 615 0$aFriendship. 615 0$aHumanism. 676 $a144 676 $a302.34 701 $aDesai$b Amit$01499363 701 $aKillick$b Evan$01499364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785454103321 996 $aThe ways of friendship$93725349 997 $aUNINA