Louis Dumont

Louis Dumont
Born	11 August 1911 Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died	19 November 1998 Paris, France
Nationality	French
Citizenship	France
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology
Institutions	Oxford University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)^[1] was a French anthropologist.

Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies.

Works

His works include Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966), From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (1977) and Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne (1983), in which he contrasts holism with individualism.

Dumont died, aged 87, in Paris.^[2]

See also

• Alliance theory

References

External links

• Good, Anthony (5 December 1998). "Obituary: Professor Louis Dumont". The Independent. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
• Beteille, Andre (9 January 1999). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Economic & Political Weekly.
• Celtel, André (December 2004). Categories of Self.Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual. Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford.

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