The Ways of Friendship - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	November 2012
Editors:	Amit Desai • Evan Killick
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-792-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-85745-792-6
Barcode:	9780857457929

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