Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition / / Robert Parkin.
The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ide...
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Parkin, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition / Robert Parkin. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003] ©2003 1 online resource (264 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 9 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Lévi-Strauss's binary opposition. In this book the author argues that, although structuralism is often thought to have gone out of fashion, Dumont's greater concern with praxis and agency makes his own version of structuralism more contemporary. The work of his followers and fellow travelers, as well as his own, indicates that hierarchical opposition is capable of taking structuralism in new and more realistic directions, reminding us that it has never been the preserve of Lévi-Strauss alone. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Ethnology India. Kinship India. Structural anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. bisacsh Parkin, Robert, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455529 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857455529 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857455529/original |
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