The Ways of Friendship : : Anthropological Perspectives / / ed. by Amit Desai, Evan Killick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Coleman, Simon,; Course, Magnus,; Desai, Amit,; Evans, Gillian,; Froerer, Peggy,; Killick, Evan,; Obeid, Michelle,; Rodgers, Graeme,; Santos, Gonçalo D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Desai, Amit,; Killick, Evan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Valuing Friendship --; 1. On ‘Same-Year Siblings’ in Rural South China --; 2. Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia --; 3. Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican Refugees in South Africa --; 4. Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Town --; 5. A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India --; 6. Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in Children’s Peer Relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India --; 7. Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche Person --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845458508; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845458508
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Amit Desai, Evan Killick.

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.