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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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This monograph is a study of the semiotic aspects of giving and receiving, len-den as it is called, in the Hindi-speaking region of northern India. It is based on eighteen months of fieldwork, carried out mostly in the village of Panhansu, from September 1977 to March 1979. More specifically, it is a study of the way in which three important aspects of intercaste and kinship relations--aspects that I have called centrality and mutuality, as well as hierarchy--are differentially foregrounded and implemented in the contexts of the giving and receiving of particular named prestations.
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The Poison in the Gift : Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
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University of Chicago Press, 1988
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The poison in the gift : ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a north Indian village / Gloria Goodwin Raheja
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First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index. Contents; Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society -- The Village and the Region in Historical Perspective -- Pahansu Today -- Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives -- Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness as Cultural Constructs -- The Language of Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness -- The Sources of Inauspiciousness -- Hamare Ghar Me Kles Rahe: Afflictions in the House and the Problem of Diagnosis -- The Structure of Ritual Action -- The Ritual Contexts of Dan and the Ritual Construction of Gujar Centrality -- The Rituals of Pregnancy, Birth, and Childhood -- Marriage and the Giving of Dan -- Death: Breaking "Connections" and the Giving of Gifts -- Prestations at the Harvests and the Barkat of the Grain -- Protecting the House and the Village: Placing the Niv and Kali Ka Bhet -- Pujapa, Sandhara, and Bayana: The Transferral of Inauspiciousness in the Yearly Festival Cycle -- Getting Sons, Removing Kast: Discovering Inauspiciousness and the Giving of Dan -- On the Appropriateness of Patras -- Prestation Types and Terminological Usages: Shifting Configurations of Castes and Kinsmen in Pahansu -- At the Threshing Place: Phaslana -- Non-phaslana Payments for Caste-specific Goods and Services -- Agricultural Labor Arrangements -- Payments for Ritual Services: Neg and Lag -- "Signs of Brotherhood": Nyauta, Parosa, and Kothli -- Gifts of the Meeting, Gifts of the Road: Milai and Wada -- Prestation Types and Terminological Usages -- Mol Lana: The Ritual Uses of "Bringing for a Price." Subjects; Ceremonial exchange India Pahansu. Gujars Rites and ceremonies. Brahmans Rites and ceremonies. Kinship India Pahansu. Caste India Pahansu. 3 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 430426
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The poison in the gift : ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a north Indian village / Gloria Goodwin Raheja
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ISBN 10: 0226707288
ISBN 13: 9780226707280
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First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index. Contents; Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society -- The Village and the Region in Historical Perspective -- Pahansu Today -- Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives -- Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness as Cultural Constructs -- The Language of Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness -- The Sources of Inauspiciousness -- Hamare Ghar Me Kles Rahe: Afflictions in the House and the Problem of Diagnosis -- The Structure of Ritual Action -- The Ritual Contexts of Dan and the Ritual Construction of Gujar Centrality -- The Rituals of Pregnancy, Birth, and Childhood -- Marriage and the Giving of Dan -- Death: Breaking "Connections" and the Giving of Gifts -- Prestations at the Harvests and the Barkat of the Grain -- Protecting the House and the Village: Placing the Niv and Kali Ka Bhet -- Pujapa, Sandhara, and Bayana: The Transferral of Inauspiciousness in the Yearly Festival Cycle -- Getting Sons, Removing Kast: Discovering Inauspiciousness and the Giving of Dan -- On the Appropriateness of Patras -- Prestation Types and Terminological Usages: Shifting Configurations of Castes and Kinsmen in Pahansu -- At the Threshing Place: Phaslana -- Non-phaslana Payments for Caste-specific Goods and Services -- Agricultural Labor Arrangements -- Payments for Ritual Services: Neg and Lag -- "Signs of Brotherhood": Nyauta, Parosa, and Kothli -- Gifts of the Meeting, Gifts of the Road: Milai and Wada -- Prestation Types and Terminological Usages -- Mol Lana: The Ritual Uses of "Bringing for a Price." Subjects; Ceremonial exchange India Pahansu. Gujars Rites and ceremonies. Brahmans Rites and ceremonies. Kinship India Pahansu. Caste India Pahansu. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 430426
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