ISBN:
9781782382874
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
220 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies 10
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword -- Günther Schlee -- -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- Martine Guichard -- -- Part I. Friendship, Kinship and Age -- -- Chapter 1. Where Are Other People's Friends Hiding? Reflections on Anthropological Studies of Friendship -- Martine Guichard -- -- Chapter 2. Comradeship and the Transformation of Alliance Theory among the Maasai: Shifting the Focus from Descent to Peer-Group Loyalty -- Paul Spencer -- -- Part II. Friendship and Ethnicity -- -- Chapter 3. Friendship Networks in Southwestern Ethiopia -- Wolde Gossa Tadesse and Martine Guichard -- -- Chapter 4. Friendship and Spiritual Parenthood among the Moose and the Fulbe in Burkina Faso -- Mark Breusers -- -- Chapter 5. Labour Migration and Moral Dimensions of Interethnic Friendships: The Case of Young Gold Miners in Benin (West Africa) -- Tilo Grätz -- -- Part III. Friendship, Politics and Urbanity -- -- Chapter 6. Friendship and Kinship among Merchants and Veterans in Mali -- Richard L. Warms -- -- Chapter 7. 'Down-to-Earth': Friendship and a National Elite Circle in Botswana -- Richard Werbner -- -- Chapter 8. Negotiating Friendship and Kinship in a Context of Violence: The Case of the Tuareg during the Upheaval in Mali from 1990 to 1996 -- Georg Klute -- -- Afterword: Friendship in a World of Force and Power -- Stephen P. Reyna -- -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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