The Anthropology Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Download The Anthropology Of Friendship PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Anthropology Of Friendship book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Anthropology Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sandra Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Anthropology Of Friendship written by Sandra Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with Family & Relationships categories.
Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places as Papua New Guinea, Kenya, China, and Brazil? In seeking to answer this question, contributors also explore what friendship means closer to home, from the bar to the office, and address the following:* Are friendships voluntary?* Should friends be distinguished sharply from relatives?* Do work and friendship mix?* Does friendship support or subvert the social order?* How is friendship shaped by the nature of the person, gender, and the relationship between private and public life?* How is friendship affected when morality is compromised by self-interest?This book represents one of the few major attempts to deal with friendship from a comparative perspective. In achieving this aim, it demonstrates the culture-bound nature of many assumptions concerning one of the most basic building-blocks of western social relationships. More importantly, it signposts the future of social relations in many parts of the world, where older social bonds based on kinship or proximity are being challenged by flexible ties forged when people move within local, national and increasingly global networks of social relations.
The Anthropology Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sandra Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Anthropology Of Friendship written by Sandra Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with Family & Relationships categories.
Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places as Papua New Guinea, Kenya, China, and Brazil? In seeking to answer this question, contributors also explore what friendship means closer to home, from the bar to the office, and address the following:* Are friendships voluntary?* Should friends be distinguished sharply from relatives?* Do work and friendship mix?* Does friendship support or subvert the social order?* How is friendship shaped by the nature of the person, gender, and the relationship between private and public life?* How is friendship affected when morality is compromised by self-interest?This book represents one of the few major attempts to deal with friendship from a comparative perspective. In achieving this aim, it demonstrates the culture-bound nature of many assumptions concerning one of the most basic building-blocks of western social relationships. More importantly, it signposts the future of social relations in many parts of the world, where older social bonds based on kinship or proximity are being challenged by flexible ties forged when people move within local, national and increasingly global networks of social relations.
The Ways Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amit Desai
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-08-01
The Ways Of Friendship written by Amit Desai and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Ways Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amit Desai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-25
The Ways Of Friendship written by Amit Desai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, the papers in this volume examine the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.
Bridges To Humanity
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bruce T. Grindal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Bridges To Humanity written by Bruce T. Grindal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Family & Relationships categories.
Jefferson And The Anthropology Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Wilton Dillon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Jefferson And The Anthropology Of Friendship written by Wilton Dillon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Friendship categories.
A Talent For Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Edward Terrell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-03
A Talent For Friendship written by John Edward Terrell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Psychology categories.
This lively, provocative text presents a new way to understand friendship. Professor John Terrell argues that the ability to make friends is an evolved human trait not unlike our ability to walk upright on two legs or our capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Terrell charts how this trait has evolved by investigating two unique functions of the human brain: the ability to remake the outside world to suit our collective needs, and our capacity to escape into our own inner thoughts and imagine how things might and ought to be. The text is richly illustrated and written in an engaging style, and will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers interested in anthropology, evolutionary and cognitive science, and psychology more broadly.
Writing Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paloma Gay y Blasco
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-23
Writing Friendship written by Paloma Gay y Blasco and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-23 with Social Science categories.
This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely crafted and deeply moving text, Hernández and Gay y Blasco suggest new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between Hernández and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.
Receiving The Gift Of Friendship
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hans S. Reinders
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-14
Receiving The Gift Of Friendship written by Hans S. Reinders and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-14 with Family & Relationships categories.
Does what we are capable of doing define us as human beings? If this basic anthropological assumption is true, where can that leave those with intellectual disabilities, unable to accomplish the things that we propose give us our very humanity? Hans Reinders here makes an unusual claim about unusual people: those who are profoundly disabled are people just like the rest of us. He acknowledges that, at first glance, this is not an unusual claim given the steps taken within the last few decades to bring the rights of those with disabilities into line with the rights of the mainstream. But, he argues, that cannot be the end of the matter, because the disabled are human beings before they are citizens. "To live a human life properly," he says, "they must not only be included in our institutions and have access to our public spaces; they must also be included in other people's lives, not just by natural necessity but by choice." Receiving the Gift of Friendship consists of three parts: (1) Profound Disability, (2) Theology, and (3) Ethics. Overturning the "commonsense" view of human beings, Reinders's argument for a paradigm shift in our relation to people with disabilities is founded on a groundbreaking philosophical-theological consideration of humanity and of our basic human commonality. Moreover, Reinders gives his study human vividness and warmth with stories of the profoundly disabled from his own life and from the work of Jean Vanier and Henri Nouwen in L'Arche communities.
Friendship Anthropology
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Friendship Anthropology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.