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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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