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 significan…
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 significan…
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.