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The Poison in the Gift

Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
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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.
Release date Australia
September 15th, 1988
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
300
Dimensions
15x23x2
ISBN-13
9780226707297
Product ID
7118697

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