The poison in the gift: (Record no. 10706)
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| fixed length control field | 01466nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 226707288(pbk.) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 323.2 |
| Item number | RAH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Raheja, Gloria Goodwin |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The poison in the gift: |
| Remainder of title | ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a north indian village |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of Chicago press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1988 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv,286p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3637608.html |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Rituals |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Caste system |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Gratis Resources |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11331 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11246 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 456 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Social Science | Plaksha University Library | Plaksha University Library | 06/08/2024 | Prof. Aditya Malik | 323.2 RAH | G000527 | 06/08/2024 | 06/08/2024 | Gratis Resources |