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

Raheja, Gloria Goodwin Goodwin

 
9780226707297: The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
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ISBN 10: 0226707296 ISBN 13: 9780226707297
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1988

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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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Book by Raheja Gloria Goodwin

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
1988
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226707296
ISBN 13 
9780226707297
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
300
Contatto del produttore
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9780226707280: The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Pre-Station, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

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ISBN 10:  0226707288 ISBN 13:  9780226707280
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1988
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