The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Pre-Station, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village - Couverture rigide

Raheja, Gloria Goodwin

 
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
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226707288
ISBN 13 
9780226707280
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780226707297: The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226707296 ISBN 13 :  9780226707297
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988
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