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Journal Article
Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770–1800
2004
Overview
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.
