TY - BOOK ID - 607256 TI - Friendship, descent, and alliance in Africa : anthropological perspectives. AU - Diallo, Youssouf AU - Grätz, Tilo AU - Guichard, Martine PY - 2014 SN - 9781782382867 9781782382874 1782382879 1306896827 9781306896825 1782382860 PB - New York Berghahn DB - UniCat KW - Primary groups KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Sociology of culture KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Friendship KW - Kinship KW - Amitié KW - Parenté KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Afrique subsaharienne KW - Social life and customs. KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Families KW - Kin recognition KW - Affection KW - Friendliness KW - Conduct of life KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Love KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Amitié KW - Parenté UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:607256 AB - 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 systema ER -