The Poison In The Gift
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The Poison In The Gift
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Author : Gloria Goodwin Raheja
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1988-09-15
The Poison In The Gift written by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
A Gift Of Poison
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Author : Andrea Newman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
A Gift Of Poison written by Andrea Newman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Gifts And Poison
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Author : Frederick George Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
Release Date : 1971
Gifts And Poison written by Frederick George Bailey and has been published by Schocken Books Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Psychology categories.
Gift Of Poison Bronte Mysteries Bk 4
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Author : Bella Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Fiction
Release Date : 2023-02-09
Gift Of Poison Bronte Mysteries Bk 4 written by Bella Ellis and has been published by Hodder Fiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-09 with categories.
Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Bronte have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage.At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering his wife by poison. Everyone thinks this famously odious and abusive man is guilty. However, he insists he is many bad things but not a murderer. When an attempt is made on his life, he believes it to be the same person who killed his wife and applies to the detecting sisters for their help. Despite reservations, they decide that perhaps, as before, it is only they who can get to the truth and prove him innocent - or guilty - without a shadow of doubt.
A Gift Of Poison
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Author : Kate Avery Ellison
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-10-24
A Gift Of Poison written by Kate Avery Ellison and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-24 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
As the orphaned niece of a cruel lord, Briand is the scapegoat of the castle. She has few friends and even fewer options, and every day is a struggle to stay ahead of trouble caused by malicious guards and irritable castle servants. Briand is set to be banished to the wildlands, a death sentence, when she when she accidentally unlocks a hidden power and involves herself in a rebel plot and her life abruptly changes. Imprisoned in the company of a band of rebels, Briand must do what seems impossible: call up sleeping dragons in the north. But the fearsome Prince's assassins called Seekers are looking for her, Briand doesn't know if she can trust the mysterious, enigmatic rebel leader Kael, and there might be a traitor in the rebels' midst.
The Gift And Its Paradoxes
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Author : Dr Olli Pyyhtinen
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-02-28
The Gift And Its Paradoxes written by Dr Olli Pyyhtinen and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with Philosophy categories.
Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. In addition to exploring the conditions of possibility and impossibility of the gift, the book draws on the thought of figures such as Derrida, Serres, Simmel, Cixous, Irigaray and Heidegger to argue for the relevance of the phenomenon of the gift to broader issues in contemporary social sciences. It takes up questions concerning the constitution of community and the processes by which people are included in or excluded from it, gender relations, materiality, the economy, and the possibility that death itself could be a gift, in the form of euthanasia or self-sacrifice. A rigorous yet accessible examination of the phenomenon of the gift in relation to a range of contemporary concerns, The Gift and its Paradoxes will appeal to scholars and students within sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political theory and film and literature studies.
Theories Of The Gift In South Asia
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Author : Maria Heim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-09-28
Theories Of The Gift In South Asia written by Maria Heim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-28 with Religion categories.
This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift.
Gifts Glittering And Poisoned
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Author : Chanon Ross
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-11-18
Gifts Glittering And Poisoned written by Chanon Ross and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Religion categories.
Spectacles designed to capture our attention surround us. Marketing, movies, shopping malls, concerts, and virtual realities capture our imaginations and cultivate our desires. We live in a "society of the spectacle." However, is the power and prevalence of spectacle unique to the modern era? In the pages of Gifts Glittering and Poisoned, early Christian voices echo across the centuries to show that the society of the spectacle is not new. Our era resembles a time when the spectacular entertainments of ancient Rome had a profound effect on every aspect of social life. By drawing on the rich theology and witness of early Christianity, Gifts Glittering and Poisoned asks what it means for us to live in a new era of empire and spectacle. Through Augustine's description of the demonic, it shows how consumerism constructs a sophisticated symbolic order, a "society of the spectacle," that corrupts our deepest longings for God.
Homo Hierarchicus
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Author : Louis Dumont
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1980
Homo Hierarchicus written by Louis Dumont and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, homo hierarchicus is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, homo aequalis. This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics. A new Postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant Appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete this innovative and influential work.
The Duchess Of Northumberland S Little Book Of Poisons Potions And Aphrodisiacs
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Author : The Duchess of Northumberland
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-06-14
The Duchess Of Northumberland S Little Book Of Poisons Potions And Aphrodisiacs written by The Duchess of Northumberland and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-14 with Medical categories.
Combining the fascinating archive of the first Duchess of Northumberland with the expertise of Jane, the present duchess and the creator of the famous Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle, this gift book contains a collection of wonderful medicinal recipes passed down through generations. The reader will learn the secrets of the poisonous and curative properties of these plants and the more unusual varieties that have been cultivated and planted for centuries, and will discover how 'to make teethe whyte' and how 'to make heare growe'. Beautifully illustrated, The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Poisons, Potions and Aphrodisiacs is the ideal gift for those with an interest in the wild plants of Britain, and for those with an interest in poisons and potions... The Duchess of Northumberland was responsible for the £35 million restoration of the 12 acres of walled garden at Alnwick Castle, which now includes the largest treehouse in the world and the famous Poison Garden. The Poison Garden remains one of the few places to have obtained permission from the Home Office to grow cannabis, opium poppies and catha edulis for display.