Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa
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Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I — Friendship, Kinship and Age
  6. Chapter 1 — Where Are Other People's Friends Hiding? Reflections on Anthropological Studies of Friendship
  7. Chapter 2 — Comradeship and the Transformation of Alliance Theory among the Maasai: Shifting the Focus from Descent to Peer-Group Loyalty
  8. Part II — Friendship and Ethnicity
  9. Chapter 3 — Friendship Networks in Southwestern Ethiopia: Wolde Gossa Tadesse and Martine Guichard
  10. Chapter 4 — Friendship and Spiritual Parenthood among the Moose and the Fulbe in Burkino Faso
  11. Chapter 5 — Labour Migration and Moral Dimensions of Interethnic Friendships: The Case of Young Gold Miners in Benin (West Africa)
  12. Part III — Friendship, Politics and Urbanity
  13. Chapter 6 — Friendship and Kinship among Merchants and Veterans in Mali
  14. Chapter 7 — 'Down-to-Earth': Friendship and a National Elite Circle in Botswana
  15. 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
  16. Afterword — Friendship in a World of Force and Power
  17. Bibliography
  18. Contributors
  19. Index