Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place

The volume "Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place" brings together reflections on the meaning and practice of friendship in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western world.

About the author

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 Theophrastus¹ Metaphysics and co-edited the volume Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure (Brill, 2013).

Product details

• Assisted by: Marlein van Raalte (Editor), Carla Risseeuw (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2017
• EAN: 9789004311787
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31178-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Value Inquiry Book
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories