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

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
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

De la contraportada

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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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1988
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226707296
ISBN 13 
9780226707297
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
300
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9780226707280: The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

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ISBN 10:  0226707288 ISBN 13:  9780226707280
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1988
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