Louis Dumont
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Louis Dumont | |
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| Born | 1911 Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Died | 19 November 1998 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | France |
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| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Oxford University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
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Louis Dumont (1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist who was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s. His best studies were on methodologies that he created.
Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s, and director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies.
Works[edit]
His works include Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966), From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (1977) and Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne (1983), in which he contrasts holism with individualism.
Dumont died, aged 87, in Paris.[1]
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References[edit]
- ^ Allen, N. J. (1998). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. XXIX (1): 1–4.[permanent dead link]
External links[edit]
- Good, Anthony (5 December 1998). "Obituary: Professor Louis Dumont". The Independent. Retrieved 25 September 2012. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- Beteille, Andre (9 January 1999). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Economic & Political Weekly. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- Celtel, André (December 2004). Categories of Self.Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual. Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford.
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