Friendship / / Michael Jackson.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson 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. Beginning with Aristotle’s accounts of friendsh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue
  • Part I. The Politics of Friendship
  • Chapter 1. Oases of Friendship
  • Chapter 2. A Society of Friends
  • Chapter 3. No Man Is an Island
  • Chapter 4. Friendships in the Field
  • Chapter 5. Man’s Best Friend
  • Part II. Personal Friendship
  • Chapter 6. Elective Affinities
  • Chapter 7. Where Is the Friend’s House?
  • Chapter 8. Childhood Friendships
  • Chapter 9. Imaginary Friends
  • Chapter 10. The Saronic Gulf
  • Chapter 11. A Soldier’s Story
  • Chapter 12. The Other in Oneself
  • Chapter 13. A Plaited Rope, Entire from Source to Mouth
  • Chapter 14. Friends and Familiars
  • Chapter 15. Objects in the Rearview Mirror (Are Closer Than They Appear)
  • Chapter 16. The Rock and Pillar Range
  • Chapter 17. Love and Friendship
  • Chapter 18. Fictive Friendship
  • Chapter 19. Reunion
  • Coda. All for One, and One for All
  • Notes
  • Index