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Author Thoen, Irma.

Title Strategic affection? : gift exchange in seventeenth-century Holland / Irma Thoen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (285 pages).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Solidarity and identity
Solidarity and identity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part I: Practices of gift exchange -- Part II: Gifts and meanings -- Part III: Terms and conditions of exchange -- Part IV: Comparison in time -- Conclusion.
Introduction -- Defining the Gift -- Gifts in Theory -- Sources and Methodology -- Part I: Practices of Gift Exchange -- Daily Hospitality -- Hospitality at Calendar Feasts -- Hospitality and Rites of Passage -- Other Gifts -- Networks of Exchange -- Part II: Gifts and Meanings -- A. Rites of Passage -- Marriage and Cooking Pots -- Birth and Christening Gifts -- Death and Support through Poetic Letters -- B. Hospitality -- Organisation of Hospitality -- Discourses on Hospitality -- Hospitality towards Professional Contacts: Tailors and -- Wet Nurses -- Stadholders and Forced Hospitality -- Hospitality and Reciprocity -- Part III: Terms and Conditions of Exchange -- Brotherly Exchange -- Friendly Exchange -- Professional Exchange -- Literary Exchange -- Part IV: Comparison in Time -- Practices of Exchange -- Discourses on Exchange in the Letters to the Future -- Cultural Conventions -- Conclusion.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary In the series Solidarity and Identity a highly readable study of gift-giving in seventeenth- century Holland across the social spectrum of the period.
Access This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0).
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Gifts -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century.
Gifts.
Netherlands.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Geschichte 1600-1700
1600-1699
Indexed Term Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic book.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Thoen, Irma. Strategic affection?. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007 9053568115 9789053568118 (OCoLC)84611943
ISBN 9781429472654 (electronic book)
1429472650 (electronic book)
9789048503438 (electronic book)
9048503434 (electronic book)
9786611572006
6611572007
1281572004
9781281572004
9053568115
9789053568118
9790000000000
Standard No. 340149
10.5117/9789053568118