Description |
vii, 213 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
ISBN |
9780857457929 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Note |
"Originally presented at a workshop entitled 'The anthropology of friendship', held at the London School of Economics in June 2006" --Acknowledgments. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Library Class |
Anthrop F940
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Subject |
Friendship -- Congresses.
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Friendship -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Humanism -- Congresses.
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Other Author |
Desai, Amit, Ph. D.
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Killick, Evan.
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