Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781782382874
ISBN-13 : 1782382879
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Book Synopsis Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa by : Martine Guichard

Download or read book Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa written by Martine Guichard and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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