Louis Dumont

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Louis Dumont
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

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

  1. ^ "MatchID".
  2. ^ Allen, N. J. (1998). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. XXIX (1): 1–4.[permanent dead link]

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