Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa : : Anthropological Perspectives / / ed. by Martine Guichard, Youssouf Diallo, Tilo Grätz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Breusers, Mark,; Grätz, Tilo,; Guichard, Martine,; Klute, Georg,; Reyna, Stephen P.,; Schlee, Günther,; Spencer, Paul,; Tadesse, Wolde Gossa,; Warms, Richard L.,; Werbner, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Diallo, Youssouf,; Grätz, Tilo,; Guichard, Martine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 -- Chapter 4 Friendship and Spiritual Parenthood among the Moose and the Fulbe in Burkina 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