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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.

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1. The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Explorations in Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange; Tatjana Thelen, Cati Coe, and Erdmute Alber PART I: THE GIVEN AND THE MADE 2. "Sharing Made Us Sisters": Sisterhood, Migration and Household Dynamics in Mexico and Namibia; Julia Pauli 3. Kinship as Friendship: Brothers and Sisters in Kwahu, Ghana; Sjaak van der Geest PART II: AMBIVALENCE IN SIBLING RELATIONS ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 4. Within the Thicket of Intergenerational Sibling Relations: A Case Study from Northern Benin; Erdmute Alber 5. When Siblings Determine Your Fate: Educational Mobility and Sibling Support in Rural Northwest China; Helena Obendiek 6. Transnational Migration and Changes in Sibling Support in Ghana; Cati Coe Afterword; Janet Carsten

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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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