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The Poison in the Gift : Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village by Gloria Goodwin Raheja (1988, Trade Paperback)

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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. 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.