Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… Henry Brome, 1679), pp. 77-78. 3 . Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship with Rules of Conducting it (London: Royston, 1657), pp. 100-101. Ideas about Christian charity – philanthropic sociability - … East Indies where gifting became most ambiguous because different contexts and customs confused even further the unclear rules about good and bad gifts. Gifting was ubiquitous in Indian society and Britons exploited this both to cement ties …
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