Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parkin, Robert, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Dumont, Louis, > 1911-1998.
Hertz, Robert, > 1881-1915.
Dumont, Louis, > 1911-1998
Hertz, Robert, > 1881-1915
Structural anthropology.
Ethnology > India.
Kinship > India.
Anthropologie structurale.
Ethnologie > Inde.
Parenté > Inde.
structural anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Ethnology
Kinship
Structural anthropology
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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