ABSTRACT
This chapter takes as its starting point two case studies: first, a cultural encounter of a highly volatile nature centred on one kind of materiality, and, second, meetings between friends and family centred on materiality of a very different kind. As readers will see, these encounters were orchestrated around opposing emotions, and therefore provide insights into how people dealt with emotional binaries such as trust and fear, delight and loathing, approval and shame and love and fear. This was a conflict that had threatened to release the wrath of the Danes on all the migrants in the city. Pieters may well have played a moderating role, telling his countrymen that his experience was that sacrificing troublemaker was preferable to risking the wrath of the Danes. Since they were used during communal meals among the migrants, these objects were embedded in these people's friendships and shared culture, strengthened by the fact that the items were manufactured in or traded from Netherlands.
