Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place
Its Meaning and Practice in Time and Place
Published on 3. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-90-04-31178-7 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world.
The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds-solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.
The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds-solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-31178-7 (9789004311787)
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Carla Risseeuw, anthropologist (PhD Nijmegen, 1988), emeritus Professor Gender Studies, Leiden University. She published on British colonial history in Sri Lanka, and, with Indian colleagues, on the Dutch welfare state and on Ageing in South Asia and Western Europe. She studied the social consequences of contracting leprosy in East Africa, and made several ethnographic films.
Marlein van Raalte (PhD Leiden, 1986) is lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. She published on Greek metre, wrote a commentary on Theophrastus (1) Metaphysics and co-edited the volume Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure (Brill, 2013).
Marlein van Raalte (PhD Leiden, 1986) is lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. She published on Greek metre, wrote a commentary on Theophrastus (1) Metaphysics and co-edited the volume Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure (Brill, 2013).
Content
Editorial Foreword
?Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place
?Carla Risseeuw and Marlein van Raalte
SECTION : Classical Asian Sources and Traditions
1 The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China
?Ping Wang
2 The Concept of Friendship in the Jataka Tales
?Ranjini Obeyesekere
SECTION : Western/European Traditions
3 Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece
?Tazuko van Berkel
4 The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth-Century bce Athens
?Albert Joosse
5 Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David & Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith
?Allan Silver
6 Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy?
?Adam Sutcliffe
SECTION 3: Friendship in Contemporary East and West
7 The Utility of 'Translated' Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present
?Wei-cheng Chu
8 Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan
?Kanako Akaeda
9 Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition
?Andrew Lambert
10 The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India
?Nita Kumar
11 Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands
?Panitee Brown Suksomboon
12 On Family, Friendship and the Need for 'Cultural Fuss': Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands
?Carla Risseeuw
13 Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care
?Natascha Gruver
Index Nominum
General Index
?Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place
?Carla Risseeuw and Marlein van Raalte
SECTION : Classical Asian Sources and Traditions
1 The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China
?Ping Wang
2 The Concept of Friendship in the Jataka Tales
?Ranjini Obeyesekere
SECTION : Western/European Traditions
3 Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece
?Tazuko van Berkel
4 The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth-Century bce Athens
?Albert Joosse
5 Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David & Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith
?Allan Silver
6 Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy?
?Adam Sutcliffe
SECTION 3: Friendship in Contemporary East and West
7 The Utility of 'Translated' Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present
?Wei-cheng Chu
8 Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan
?Kanako Akaeda
9 Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition
?Andrew Lambert
10 The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India
?Nita Kumar
11 Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands
?Panitee Brown Suksomboon
12 On Family, Friendship and the Need for 'Cultural Fuss': Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands
?Carla Risseeuw
13 Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care
?Natascha Gruver
Index Nominum
General Index