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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