Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Louis Dumont and Hierarchical OppositionThe work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lvi Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Lvi Strauss's binary opposition. In this book the author argues that, although structuralism is often thought to have gone out of fashion, Dumont's

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