The ways of friendship : anthropological perspectives /: anthropological perspectives. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick.
• Other Names: Ph. D, Desai, Amit; Killick, Evan
• Contents: Introduction: valuing friendship / Evan Killick, Amit Desai -- On 'same-year siblings' in rural south China / Gonçalo D. Santos -- Ayompari, compadre, amigo: forms of fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia / Evan Killick -- Friendship, distance and kinship-talk amongst Mozambican refugees in South Africa / Graeme Rodgers -- Friendship, kinship and sociality in a Lebanese town / Michelle Obeid -- A matter of affection: ritual friendship in central India / Amit Desai -- Close friends: the importance of proximity in children's peer relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India / Peggy Proffer -- Making friends, making oneself: friendship and the Maputhe person / Magnus Course -- The value of friendship: subject/object transformations in the economy of becoming a person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) / Gillian Evans -- Afterword: making friendship impure: some reflections on a (still) neglected topic / Simon Coleman.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (221 pages), map
• Subjects: 144; Friendship -- Congresses; Humanism -- Congresses; Friendship; Humanism; Philosophy; Social Science; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Friendship; Humanism; Vriendschap; Antropologische aspecten; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Congressen (vorm); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458508; 1845458508
• Related ISBNs: 9781845457310; 1845457315
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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