Friends For Life, Friends For Death: Cohorts And Consciousness Among The Lunda-Ndembu (Hardcover)
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ISBN : 9780813926247
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Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu
Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, Friends for Life, Friends for Death offers an insider’s view into the day-to-day lives of a self-selected group of male friends within the Lunda-Ndembu society in northwestern Zambia. During his two decades of fieldwork in this region, James Pritchett followed a group of Lunda-Ndembu males, here called Amabwambu (the friends), revealing the importance of the clique both as a principal agent for receiving and interpreting information from and about the world and as a place where strategies could be hatched, tested, and applied. Viewing friendship, versus kinship, as a critical rather than peripheral element of the Lunda-Ndembu and other groups, the author offers new insights into the ways social structures are able to stay viable even in the face of radical change.
Specification of Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu
GENERAL | |
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Author | James A. Pritchett |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | Annotated edition |
ISBN-10 | 0813926246 |
ISBN-13 | 9780813926247 |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Publication Year | 2007 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 6.25 inch. |
Length | 1 inch. |
Width | 9.25 inch. |
Weight | 1.25 pounds. |
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