TY - BOOK ID - 61219958 TI - Conceptualizing friendship in time and place AU - Risseeuw, Carla AU - Van Raalte, Marlein PY - 2017 SN - 9004344195 9004311785 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill-Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Friendship KW - Affection KW - Friendliness KW - Conduct of life KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Love UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61219958 AB - 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. ER -