Reassess the view that friendship is best understood within wider ideologies of kinship. Contributors engage in productive theoretical conversation with recent anthropological work on relatedness, personhood and individualism. Illustrates that the power of friendship in many cultures often lies precisely in its distinction from ways of making kinship, however the latter is understood locally.
Reassess the view that friendship is best understood within wider ideologies of kinship. Contributors engage in productive theoretical conversation with recent anthropological work on relatedness, personhood and individualism. Illustrates that the power of friendship in many cultures often lies precisely in its distinction from ways of making kinship, however the latter is understood locally.
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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List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: Valuing Friendship Evan Killick and Amit Desai Chapter 1. On 'Same-Year Siblings' in Rural South China Gonçalo D. Santos Chapter 2. Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia Evan Killick Chapter 3. Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican Refugees in South Africa Graeme Rodgers Chapter 4. Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Village Michelle Obeid Chapter 5. A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India Amit Desai Chapter 6. Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in the Formation of Friendship in Chhattisgarh, India. Peggy Froerer Chapter 7. Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche person Magnus Course Chapter 8. The Value of Friendship: Subject/Object Transformations in the Economy of Becoming a Person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) Gillian Evans Afterword Simon Coleman List of Contributors Index
List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: Valuing Friendship Evan Killick and Amit Desai Chapter 1. On 'Same-Year Siblings' in Rural South China Gonçalo D. Santos Chapter 2. Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia Evan Killick Chapter 3. Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican Refugees in South Africa Graeme Rodgers Chapter 4. Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Village Michelle Obeid Chapter 5. A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India Amit Desai Chapter 6. Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in the Formation of Friendship in Chhattisgarh, India. Peggy Froerer Chapter 7. Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche person Magnus Course Chapter 8. The Value of Friendship: Subject/Object Transformations in the Economy of Becoming a Person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) Gillian Evans Afterword Simon Coleman List of Contributors Index
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