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portada Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Paperback
ISBN
1845456475
ISBN13
9781845456474
Edition No.
1

Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition (in English)

Robert Parkin (Author) · Berghahn Books · Paperback

Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition (in English) - Robert Parkin

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Synopsis "Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition (in English)"

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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