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The Poison in the Gift by Gloria Goodwin Raheja
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- Book Title
- The Poison in the Gift
- ISBN
- 9780226707297
- Subject Area
- Social Work
- Publication Name
- The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
- Publisher
- T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Sociology, Anthropology
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 228mm
- Item Width
- 154mm
- Item Weight
- 460g
- Number of Pages
- 300 Pages
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The Poison in the Gift is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of ritual centrality, Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial interpretation advanced by Louis Dumont in his 1966 book, Homo Hierarchicus, in which he proposed a disjunction between the ideology of hierarchy based on the purity of the Brahman priest and the temporal power of the dominant caste or the king.
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T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226707297
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Subject Area
Social Work
Publication Name
The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology, Anthropology
Publication Year
1988
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
300 Pages
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Item Height
228mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
460g
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United States
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