Strategic affection? : gift exchange in seventeenth-century Holland /
In the series Solidarity and Identity a highly readable study of gift-giving in seventeenth- century Holland across the social spectrum of the period.
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2007.
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Table of 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
- The 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.
