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This chapter introduces us to who the authors are, and how they came to study the bromance. It highlights that the authors were a PhD student and adviser, and why they choose to conduct ethnography on the population of a university dodgeball team for data collection. It contextualizes the history of research into men’s friendships and foreshadows some of the change that the authors have seen in how men behave and emote with each other, across the decades of the latter twentieth century and early twenty-first century.
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Robinson, S., Anderson, E. (2022). Introduction. In: Bromance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98610-0_1
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