
The Poison in the Gift (English, Gloria Goodwin Raheja)
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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
Book Specifications
| ISBN-13 | 9780226707297 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226707296 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Category | University of Chicago Press |
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