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Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition / Robert Parkin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781571815781
  • 9780857455529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 23
LOC classification:
  • GN362 .P37 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Needham’s Development of Hertz -- 3. The Dumontian Reaction: understanding Hierarchical Opposition -- 4. The Background to Dumont’s Revision in India and Elsewhere -- 5. The Reception of Hierarchical Opposition -- 6. The School of Dumont: From Classification to Ritual Analysis -- 7. Residue, Cosmos and Economics -- 8. Innocence and Possibility -- 9. Legacies and Lessons -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 travelers, as well as his own, indicates that hierarchical opposition is capable of taking structuralism in new and more realistic directions, reminding us that it has never been the preserve of Lévi-Strauss alone.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Needham’s Development of Hertz -- 3. The Dumontian Reaction: understanding Hierarchical Opposition -- 4. The Background to Dumont’s Revision in India and Elsewhere -- 5. The Reception of Hierarchical Opposition -- 6. The School of Dumont: From Classification to Ritual Analysis -- 7. Residue, Cosmos and Economics -- 8. Innocence and Possibility -- 9. Legacies and Lessons -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 travelers, as well as his own, indicates that hierarchical opposition is capable of taking structuralism in new and more realistic directions, reminding us that it has never been the preserve of Lévi-Strauss alone.

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