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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Breusers, Mark
• Diallo, Youssouf[Herausgeber]
• Grätz, Tilo
• Grätz, Tilo[Herausgeber]
• Guichard, Martine
• Guichard, Martine[Herausgeber]
• Klute, Georg
• Reyna, Stephen P
• Schlee, Günther
• Spencer, Paul
• Tadesse, Wolde Gossa
• Warms, Richard L
• Werbner, Richard

Titel

Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa : Anthropological Perspectives

Ist Teil von

• Integration and Conflict Studies : 10

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2014]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• 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