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Strategic Affection?: Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Amsterdam University Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-90-485-0343-8 | Paper: 978-90-5356-811-8 Library of Congress Classification DJ71.T46 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 306
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: 17th century | Civilization | Gifts | Netherlands | Social life and customs See other titles from Amsterdam University Press |
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Strategic Affection?: Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Amsterdam University Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-90-485-0343-8
Paper: 978-90-5356-811-8
eISBN: 978-90-485-0343-8
Paper: 978-90-5356-811-8
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
