The ways of friendship
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781845457310
Subjects: Friendship; Congresses; Humanism
Notes: "Originally presented at a workshop entitled 'The anthropology of friendship', held at the London School of Economics in June 2006"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: valuing friendship / Evan Killick, Amit Desai; title: On 'same-year siblings' in rural south China / Gonçalo D. Santos; title: Ayompari, compadre, amigo: forms of fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia / Evan Killick; title: Friendship, distance and kinship-talk amongst Mozambican refugees in South Africa / Graeme Rodgers; title: Friendship, kinship and sociality in a Lebanese town / Michelle Obeid; title: A matter of affection: ritual friendship in central India / Amit Desai; title: Close friends: the importance of proximity in children's peer relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India / Peggy Proffer; title: Making friends, making oneself: friendship and the Maputhe person / Magnus Course; title: The value of friendship: subject/object transformations in the economy of becoming a person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) / Gillian Evans; title: Afterword: making friendship impure: some reflections on a (still) neglected topic / Simon Coleman.