{"title":"A Wonderful Linkage of Beings:\nHierarchy and the Cultural Instruments\nof Social Organization in Elizabethan England","authors":"G. McCracken","doi":"10.7202/1085912ar","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The social hierarchy of Elizabethan England was\nstoutly and exactly \"hinged\". At every point ranks touched\nin the hierarchy, cultural instruments worked to establish a\nconnection between them. The purpose of the present paper\nis to give an anthropological account of two of these cultural\ninstruments, showing how they served the concept and the\npractice of Elizabethan social organization. The cultural\ninstruments in question are courtesy and child exchange.","PeriodicalId":84519,"journal":{"name":"Culture (Canadian Ethnology Society)","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Culture (Canadian Ethnology Society)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1085912ar","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The social hierarchy of Elizabethan England was
stoutly and exactly "hinged". At every point ranks touched
in the hierarchy, cultural instruments worked to establish a
connection between them. The purpose of the present paper
is to give an anthropological account of two of these cultural
instruments, showing how they served the concept and the
practice of Elizabethan social organization. The cultural
instruments in question are courtesy and child exchange.