Friendship / Michael Jackson.
"This book draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson explores the political and personal resonance...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "This book draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson explores the political and personal resonances of friendship, and the tensions between them-in the thought of philosophers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Arendt, in the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and in the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends and imaginary friends, lifelong friendships and friendships with animals; and ruminates on the complications of friendship between ethnographers and their interlocutors in the field. Blending memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781512824292 1512824291 |