The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Raheja

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226707296

ISBN13:9780226707297

Release Date:September 1988

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:300 Pages

Weight:2.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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Anthropology Cultural Customs & Traditions Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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