ISBN: 9780226707297 - the poison in the gift: ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a north indian village: ritual pre-station, and the dominant case in a north indian village (21 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Zustand: New. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC; JFSF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412. . 1988. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC; JFSF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412. . 1988. paperback. . . . . …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages; 1988 University of Chicago Press. Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, snug and neat; no marks. Trace shelf evidence to cover edges and a light shelf bump bottom edge. VG or better.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Klappentextrnrn 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 .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '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.…