Louis Dumont

Louis Dumont ( born 1911 in Thessaloniki, † November 19, 1998 in Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. His specialty was the cultures and societies of India, but he dealt well with the western social philosophy and ideology.

Dumont's work includes writings on philosophy, history, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. He is the winner of the Premio Amalfi (1991 for l' allemande ideology ).

Life

Dumont was a student of Marcel Mauss in Paris. In 1945 he entered the Musée national des arts et des traditions a populaires. In 1948, he began field trials in the Pramalai Kallar in South India, in Une sous -caste de l' Inde du sud about it. 1957 Organization sociale et religion of Pramalai Kallar wrote. In 1951 he wrote an analysis of religionsanthropologischer perspective on Tarasque, La Tarasque: essai de description d'un fait local d'un point de vue ethnographique.

Between 1951 and 1955, Dumont taught at Oxford University, in 1955 he became director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In the aftermath Dumont had several study visits to Uttar Pradesh.

Views and theses

Dumont's theoretical work contributed to the understanding of the dimensions of hierarchical relationships. Dumont suspected that behind every distinction, was to find a hierarchy behind each pair of opposites. Dumont's work to the Indian caste system reflects this by structuralist thought. Dumont also developed theories on western society, especially to individualism, and the alliance theory.

Writings

  • La Tarasque: essai de description d'un fait local d'un point de vue ethnographique. Gallimard, Paris 1957.
  • La civilization indienne et nous: esquisse de sociologie comparée. Armand Colin, Paris 1967.
  • Homo hierarchicus. Essai sur le système of castes. Gallimard, Paris 1971.
  • Introduction à deux d' anthropologie sociale théories: groupes de filiation et de mariage alliance. Mouton, Paris -La Haye in 1971.
  • Homo aequalis I: genèse Epanouissement et de l' économique idéologie; II: l' allemande ideology. Gallimard / BSH, Paris 1978.
  • Essais sur l' individualisme. Une perspective anthropologique sur l' idéologie modern. Le Seuil, Paris 1985.
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