Strategic Affection?: Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Irma Thoen
Since the early days of humanity, gifts as varied as valued objects, hospitality, and works of art have been an essential means of establishing and maintaining social ties. Strategic Affection? studies the exchange of gifts in order to explore the nature of seventeenth-century Dutch social relations. Looking at such widely divergent figures as schoolmasters, artisans, poets, and nobles, Irma Thoen compares seventeenth-century Dutch gifts with contemporary gift exchanges to show that both strategy and affection are necessary elements of any social relations—and that what changes most is not the system but the discourse of exchange.
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Рік:
2007
Видавництво:
Amsterdam University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
285
ISBN 10:
9053568115
ISBN 13:
9789053568118
Серії:
Solidarity and Identity
Файл:
PDF, 1.94 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2007
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