Writing Friendship A Reciprocal Ethnography

This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the an

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Writing Friendship A Reciprocal Ethnography Paloma Gay y Blasco · Liria Hernández

Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Series Editors Deborah Reed-Danahay Department of Anthropology The State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY, USA Helena Wulff Department of Social Anthropology Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden

This book series aims to publish explorations of new ethnographic objects and emerging genres of writing at the intersection of literary and anthropological studies. Books in this series will be grounded in ethnographic perspectives and the broader cross-cultural lens that anthropology brings to the study of reading and writing. The series will explore the ethnography of fiction, ethnographic fiction, narrative ethnography, creative nonfiction, memoir, autoethnography, and the connections between travel literature and ethnographic writing. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15120

Paloma Gay y Blasco · Liria Hernández

Writing Friendship A Reciprocal Ethnography

Paloma Gay y Blasco University of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife, UK

Liria Hernández Madrid, Spain

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I want to dedicate this book to my mother, Luisa, because she inculcated in us the values of nobility of character and of wisdom. She was a brave and loving G