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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2002.
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Series: | Methodology and history in anthropology ;
v. 9. |
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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.