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French anthropologist
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Louis Dumont
Born
11 August 1911
Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died
19 November 1998
Paris, France
Nationality
French
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France
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Anthropology
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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.
Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of...
(1988). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of LouisDumont. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 360. ISBN 978-81-208-0527-9. Chattopadhyaya...
Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is LouisDumont's treatise on the Indian caste system. It analyses the caste hierarchy and the...
as a form of communication that anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss, LouisDumont or Rodney Needham have described. Alliance theory hence tries to understand...
of the 13th century. The work is referred to as the "pseudo-Raban" by LouisDumont and others. There is also a brief notice on the tarasque which occurs...
Pierre Dumont may refer to: Pierre Dumont (painter) (1884–1936), French painter Pierre Dumont (sculptor) (1650–?), French sculptor Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont...
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The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont /ˈduːmɒnt/) was one...
University Press. pp. 17–. ISBN 9780521523080. Retrieved 13 May 2011. LouisDumont (1980). Homo hierarchicus: the caste system and its implications. University...
(1988). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of LouisDumont. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-0527-9. Rocher, Ludo (1986). The...
Louise Farrenc (née Jeanne-Louise Dumont; 31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the Romantic period....
(1982). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer: Essays in Honour of LouisDumont (1st ed.). Institute of Economic Growth. p. 129. ISBN 81-208-0527-5....
immediate success, his ideas were spread further when Pierre Étienne LouisDumont translated edited selections from a variety of Bentham's manuscripts...
in India envelop the secular aspects; for example, the anthropologist LouisDumont described the ritual rankings that exist within the jati system as being...
(1988). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of LouisDumont. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 129. ISBN 9788120805279. Retrieved 4 July 2015...
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