Big Men
Category=JBS
Category=JHMC
Category=JMH
Chinese societies
comparative ethnography
cross-cultural relationships
Cross-sex Friendships
cultural variation in friendship
Domino Players
ecological anthropology
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
friendship
Good Life
Grain Drying System
Great Continuation
Guanxi Networks
Guanxi Practice
High Individuation
Husband Wife Intimacy
Icelandic Commonwealth
Icelandic sagas
kinship studies
Medieval Icelandic
modern Western conception
Patron Client Links
Permanent Geographical Proximity
Post War
Public Propriety
qualitative fieldwork
relational sociology
Resort Towns
Saga Accounts
social network analysis
Spontaneous Affection
Tv Quiz Show
Vice Versa
West Fjords
Young Man
Youth Sociability
Product details
- ISBN 9781859733103
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Sandra Bell University of Durham Simon Coleman University of Durham
