Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition
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Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition
（Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 9）
Berghahn Books, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-244) and indexes
First published in 2002, first paperback edition published in 2009
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Description
The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Levi-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 Levi-Strauss alone.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Needham's Development of Hertz
Chapter 3. The Dumontian Reaction: understanding
Chapter 4. The Background to Dumont's Revision in India and Elsewhere
Chapter 5. The Reception of Hierarchical Opposition
Chapter 6. The School of Dumont: From Classification to Ritual Analysis
Chapter 7. Residue, Cosmos and Economics
Chapter 8. Innocence and Possibility
Chapter 9. Legacies and Lessons
Bibliography
Index
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