{"product_id":"friends-for-life-friends-for-death-cohorts-and-consciousness-among-the-lunda-ndembu-9780813926247","title":"Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James A. Pritchett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46890762272919,"sku":"9780813926247","price":7366.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813926247.webp?v=1770270674","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/friends-for-life-friends-for-death-cohorts-and-consciousness-among-the-lunda-ndembu-9780813926247","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}