The ways of friendship [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological perspectives / / edited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 144; 302.34
• Soggetto topico: Friendship; Humanism
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology (General), Sociology, Cultural Studies (General)
• Altri autori: DesaiAmit KillickEvan
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The ways of friendship
• ISBN: 0-85745-825-6; 1-282-75290-1; 9786612752902; 1-84545-850-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785454103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II