LEADER 02578nam 22005293u 450 001 9910787881903321 005 20210114065902.0 010 $a0-85745-552-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857455529 035 $a(CKB)2670000000530547 035 $a(EBL)1466209 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1466209 035 $a(DE-B1597)636030 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857455529 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000530547 100 $a20140310d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLouis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition$b[electronic resource] 210 $aNew York, NY $cBerghahn Books$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aMethodology & History in Anthropology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-647-5 327 $aLOUIS 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 330 $a The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Le?vi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Le?vi-Strauss's binary opposition. In this book the author argues that, although structuralism is often thought to have gone out of fashion, Dumont's greater concern with praxis and agency makes his own version of structuralism more contemporary. The work of his followers and fellow travel 410 0$aMethodology & History in Anthropology 606 $aEthnology$zIndia 606 $aKinship$zIndia 606 $aStructural anthropology 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology$2bisacsh 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aKinship 615 0$aStructural anthropology. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. 676 $a305.8 700 $aParkin$b Robert$01573294 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787881903321 996 $aLouis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition$93848975 997 $aUNINA