The Ways of Friendship

Anthropological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Desai, Amit; Killick, Evan

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Produktbeschreibung

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 ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780857457929
• ISBN-10: 0857457926
• Artikelnr.: 36833247

Autorenporträt

Evan Killick is Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex, specialising in the study of Lowland South American societies. Working with both indigenous and mixed-heritage peoples in Peru and Brazil his work considers issues of race, indigeneity, land rights and development.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Valuing Friendship
Evan Killick and Amit Desai
Chapter 1. On 'Same-Year Siblings' in Rural South China
Gonçalo D. Santos
Chapter 2. Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian
Amazonia
Evan Killick
Chapter 3. Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican
Refugees in South Africa
Graeme Rodgers
Chapter 4. Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Village
Michelle Obeid
Chapter 5. A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India
Amit Desai
Chapter 6. Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in the Formation of
Friendship in Chhattisgarh, India.
Peggy Froerer
Chapter 7. Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche
person
Magnus Course
Chapter 8. The Value of Friendship: Subject/Object Transformations in the
Economy of Becoming a Person (Bermondsey, Southeast London)
Gillian Evans
Afterword
Simon Coleman
List of Contributors
Index