Friendship, descent, and alliance in Africa
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Martine Guichard, Tilo Grätz, and Youssouf Diallo
Series: Integration and conflict studies -- volume 10; Integration and conflict studies -- v. 10.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781782382867; 9781782382874
Subjects: Friendship; Kinship; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Where are other people's friends hiding? Reflections on anthropological studies of friendship  -- Martine Guichard; title: Comradeship and the transformation of alliance theory among the Maasai : shifting the focus from descent to peer-group loyalty  -- Paul Spencer; title: Friendships networks in south-western Ethiopia  -- Wolde Gossa Tadesse and Martine Guichard; title: Friendship and spiritual parenthood among the Moose and the Fulbe in Burkina Faso  -- Mark Breusers; title: Labour migration and moral dimensions of interethnic friendships : the case of young gold-miners in Benin (West Africa)  -- Tilo Grätz; title: Friendship and kinship among merchants and veterans in Mali  -- Richard L. Warms; title: "Down-to-earth" : friendship and a national elite circle in Botswana  -- Richard Werbner; title: Negotiating friendship and kinship in a context of violence : the case of the Tuareg in Mali during the upheaval from 1990 to 1996  -- Georg Klute; title: Afterword. Friendship in a world of force and power -- Stephen P. Reyna.