On the Im/Propriety of Brand Names

This paper asks what kind of modifications we might have to make to our conventional understandings of proper names to accommodate the im/propriety of brand names. On the basis of ethnographic research on a naming crisis at a Mumbai advertising agency, I suggest that the classic anthropological noti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: William Mazzarella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2015-09-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3986