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Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770–1800

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2005

Natasha Eaton
Natasha Eaton
Affiliation:
School of Art history & Archaeology, The University of Manchester
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Today cultural thingness is on the agenda. What Appadurai has called “methodological fetishism” has become the byword for a new type of inquiry into the ontology of possession and circulation of things. Of these, the Maussian ’gift' has emerged as an organizing topos for other institutions of exchange not structured by the contractual rationality of commodity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 816 - 844
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© 2004 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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