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Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa : Anthropological Perspectivces.
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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Colección: | Integration and conflict studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I
- Friendship, Kinship and Age; Chapter 1
- Where Are Other People's Friends Hiding? Reflections on Anthropological Studies of Friendship; Chapter 2
- Comradeship and the Transformation of Alliance Theory among the Maasai: Shifting the Focus from Descent to Peer-Group Loyalty; 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 Burkino Faso.
- Chapter 5
- Labour Migration and Moral Dimensions of Interethnic Friendships: The Case of Young Gold Miners in Benin (West Africa)Part III
- Friendship, Politics and Urbanity; Chapter 6
- Friendship and Kinship among Merchants and Veterans in Mali; Chapter 7
- 'Down-to-Earth': Friendship and a National Elite Circle in Botswana; 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; Afterword
- Friendship in a World of Force and Power; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.