The Poison in the Gift

Name: The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226707297
Price: 4101.00 INR
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Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

by Gloria Goodwin Raheja

University of Chicago Press

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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.

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