Between Mimesis and Alterity

Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770-1800

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2108297
AutoresNatasha Eaton (autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume46
Fascículo4
Páginas816-844
Data de publicação2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417504000374
OpenAlexW1526110508
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

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

Aesthetics · Alterity · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Diplomacy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy