Louis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkin, Robert.

Series:

Methodology & History in Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--India.

Ethnology.

Kinship--India.

Kinship.

Structural anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Summary:

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 travel

Contents:

LOUIS DUMONT AND HIERARCHICAL OPPOSITION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. NEEDHAM'S DEVELOPMENT OF HERTZ; CHAPTER 3. THE DUMONTIAN REACTION; CHAPTER 4. THE BACKGROUND TO DUMONT'S REVISION; CHAPTER 5. THE RECEPTION OF HIERARCHICAL OPPOSITION; CHAPTER 6. THE SCHOOL OF DUMONT; CHAPTER 7. RESIDUE, COSMOS AND ECONOMICS; CHAPTER 8. INNOCENCE AND POSSIBILITY; CHAPTER 9. LEGACIES AND LESSONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857455529

0857455524

OCLC:

878924946