Strategic Affection?
Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Published on 1. October 2025
286 pages
978-1-040-78251-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations through the exchange of gifts by a wide range of individuals, from schoolmaster and artisan to poet and regent. Their gift-exchange behaviour is compared to contemporary gift exchange to show that both strategy and affection are necessary elements of social relations at any given time, and that what changes most is not the system but the discourse of exchange.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
5,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78251-4 (9781040782514)
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12/2006
Pallas Publications
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Person
Irma Thoen received her PhD at the European University. Institute in Florence.
Content
Introduction, Part I: Practices of Gift Exchange, Part II: Gifts and Meanings, A: Rites of Passage , B: Hospitality, Part III: Terms and Conditions of Exchange, Part IV: Comparison in Time, Conclusion, Notes, Sources, Literature, Index of Subjects.
