02578nam 22005293u 450 991078788190332120210114065902.00-85745-552-410.1515/9780857455529(CKB)2670000000530547(EBL)1466209(MiAaPQ)EBC1466209(DE-B1597)636030(DE-B1597)9780857455529(EXLCZ)99267000000053054720140310d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLouis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition[electronic resource]New York, NY Berghahn Books20091 online resource (264 p.)Methodology & History in AnthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-84545-647-5 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 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 travelMethodology & History in AnthropologyEthnologyIndiaKinshipIndiaStructural anthropologySOCIAL SCIENCE / MethodologybisacshEthnologyKinshipStructural anthropology.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.305.8Parkin Robert1573294AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910787881903321Louis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition3848975UNINA