Strategic affection? gift exchange in seventeenth-century Holland
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 relation...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Solidarity and identity.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427552006719 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781281572004 9786611572006 9789048503438 9781429472654 |
