The Anthropology of Sibling Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Anthropology of Sibling Relations

   1. The Anthropology of Sibling Relations

      • Tatjana Thelen, Cati Coe, Erdmute Alber

      Pages 1-26

3. Siblingship as Shared Parentage and Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Sharing Made Us Sisters

      • Julia Pauli

      Pages 29-50

   3. Kinship as Friendship

      • Sjaak van der Geest

      Pages 51-70

4. Siblingship as Life-Long Exchange

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Within the Thicket of Intergenerational Sibling Relations

      • Erdmute Alber

      Pages 73-96

   3. When Siblings Determine Your “Fate”

      • Helena Obendiek

      Pages 97-121

   4. Transnational Migration and Changes in Sibling Support in Ghana

      • Cati Coe

      Pages 123-146

   5. Afterword

      • Janet Carsten

      Pages 147-150

5. Back Matter

   Pages 151-195

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Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.

• anthropology
• care
• childhood
• community
• education
• emotion
• Generation
• migration
• mobility
• Nation
• Transnational

To come.

Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh, UK Helena Obendiek, Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany Julia Pauli, Hamburg University, Germany Sjaak van der Geest, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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