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.
Amit Desai is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. His research
explores the connections between Hindu religious experience and
nationalist identification among people in central India, and this
has led him to consider questions of religious subjectivity, moral
practice, power and transformations in personhood and
sociality.
Evan Killick is Nuffield Foundation New Career Development
Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Sussex, specialising in the study of Lowland South
American societies. Working with both indigenous and mixed-heritage
peoples in Peru and Brazil his work considers issues of race,
indigeneity, land rights and development.
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