Louis Dumont
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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)[1] was a French anthropologist.
Dumont was born in
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western
social philosophy and ideologies.
Works
His works include Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966), From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (1977) and Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne (1983), in which he contrasts holism with individualism.
Dumont died, aged 87, in Paris.[2]
See also
References
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- ^ Allen, N. J. (1998). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. XXIX (1): 1–4.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Good, Anthony (5 December 1998). "Obituary: Professor Louis Dumont". The Independent. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- Beteille, Andre (9 January 1999). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)"(PDF). Economic & Political Weekly.
- Celtel, André (December 2004). Categories of Self.Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual. Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford.