Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin
Title: The Poison in the Gift. Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1988). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv, 286 pp. 12pp photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society; Auspiciousness & Inauspiciousness as Cultural Constructs; The Structure of Ritual Action; The Ritual Contexts of Dan & the Ritual Construction of Gujar Centrality; Prestation Types & Terminological Usages:Shifting Configurations of Castes & Kinsmen in Pahansu.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Ceremonial exchange, Gujar caste, India, Kinship, Sociology, Uttar Pradesh, South Asia, Ethnography, Anthropology