Louis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Parkin Robert
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - India; Kinship - India; Structural anthropology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Louis Dumont And Hierarchical Opposition
• ISBN: 0-85745-552-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787881903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology