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.…mehr
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.
Martine Guichard is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. She has conducted research in Benin and Cameroon on local political cultures, ethnicity, friendship and kinship.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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