The basic premise of the proposed study is that each person is aware of himself as part of a certain ethnos, and also identifies other people on the basis of ethnicity. An important role in this process is played by the category of ethnicity, under which the author of the article understands such a language as universal by means of which a person determines the belonging of himself and others t...

This paper addresses questions of friendship and political community by investigating a particular complex case, comradeship in the life of the soldier. Close attention to soldiers’ accounts of their own lives, successes and failures shows that the relationship of friendship to comradeship, and of both to the success of the soldier’s individual and communal life, is complex and tense. I focus o...