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.
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