The Poison in the Gift (English, Gloria Goodwin Raheja)

Name: The Poison in the Gift (English, Gloria Goodwin Raheja)
SKU: isbn-9780226707297
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ISBN: 9780226707297

By Gloria Goodwin RahejaUniversity of Chicago Press

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ISBN-13	9780226707297
ISBN-10	0226707296

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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 cont…

ISBN: 9780226707297