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UNINA9910787881903321 |
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Autore |
Parkin Robert |
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Titolo |
Louis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition [[electronic resource]] |
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New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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Methodology & History in Anthropology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - India |
Kinship - India |
Structural anthropology |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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