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Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition /

"The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigeno...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parkin, Robert, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
Colección:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Needham's Development of Hertz
  • 3. The Dumontian Reaction: Understanding Hierarchical Opposition
  • 4. The Background to Dumont's Revision in India and Elsewhere
  • 5. The Reception of Hierarchical Opposition
  • 6. The School of Dumont: From Classification to Ritual Analysis
  • 7. Residue, Cosmos and Economics
  • 8. Innocence and Possibility
  • 9. Legacies and Lessons.