Article: Amities: anthropologie et histoire. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)

RAVIS-GIORDANI, GEORGES (ed.). Amities: anthropologie et histoire. 480 pp., tables, diagr., bibliogrs. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1999. FF 300,00 (paper)

As the editiors of a recent English-language volume on the anthropology of friendship argue, new approaches to kinship that emphasize its cultural and processual dimensions call for a fresh look at friendship, one of a range of relations based on sentiment that form a wider symbolic and practical context for kinship. Amities: anthropologie et histoire by Georges Ravis-Giordani is therefore a welcome addition to the relatively scant literature on this topic. The volume is a ...

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