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Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu

by James A. Pritchett
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780813926247
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: USD 63.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 567 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Africa / General

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.

James A. Pritchett, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University, is the author of Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa.

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