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

The Poison in the Gift : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226707297 : 0226707296 : 01 May 1989 : 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...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0226707296
  • 9780226707297
  • Raheja
  • 1 September 1988
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 300
  • illustrated edition
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