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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society | |
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| The Village and the Region in Historical Perspective | |
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| Pahansu Today | |
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| Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives | |
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| Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness as Cultural Constructs | |
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| The Language of Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness | |
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| The Sources of Inauspiciousness | |
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| Hamare Ghar Me Kles Rahe: Afflictions in the House and the Problem of Diagnosis | |
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| The Structure of Ritual Action | |
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| The Ritual Contexts of Dan and the Ritual Construction of Gujar Centrality | |
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| The Rituals of Pregnancy, Birth, and Childhood | |
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| Marriage and the Giving of Dan | |
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| Death: Breaking "Connections" and the Giving of Gifts | |
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| Prestations at the Harvests and the Barkat of the Grain | |
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| Protecting the House and the Village: Placing the Niv and Kali Ka Bhet | |
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| Pujapa, Sandhara, and Bayana: The Transferral of Inauspiciousness in the Yearly Festival Cycle | |
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| Getting Sons, Removing Kast: Discovering Inauspiciousness and the Giving of Dan | |
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| On the Appropriateness of Patras | |
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| Prestation Types and Terminological Usages: Shifting Configurations of Castes and Kinsmen in Pahansu | |
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| At the Threshing Place: Phaslana | |
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| Non-phaslana Payments for Caste-specific Goods and Services | |
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| Agricultural Labor Arrangements | |
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| Payments for Ritual Services: Neg and Lag | |
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| "Signs of Brotherhood": Nyauta, Parosa, and Kothli | |
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| Gifts of the Meeting, Gifts of the Road: Milai and Wada | |
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| Prestation Types and Terminological Usages | |
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| Mol Lana: The Ritual Uses of "Bringing for a Price" | |
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| "You Can't Look a Gift Calf in the Mouth": Another Perspective on Dan | |
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| Centrality, Mutuality, and Hierarchy: Aspects of Relationships in Kinship and Caste | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |