Louis Dumont

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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (born August 19, 1911 in Thessaloniki , † November 19, 1998 in Paris ) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist . His specialty was the cultures and societies of India , but he was also concerned with Western social philosophy and ideology.

Dumont's work includes writings on philosophy, history, law, political science, sociology, and anthropology. He is the winner of the Premio Amalfi (1991 for l'Idéologie allemande ). He worked as a professor at both the University of Oxford and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

Life

Dumont was a student of Marcel Mauss in Paris. In 1945 he joined the Musée national des arts et des traditions populaires . In 1948 he began field studies with the Pramalai Kallar in southern India, over which he in 1957 in Une sous-caste de l'Inde du sud. Organization sociale et religion of Pramalai Kallar wrote. In 1951 he wrote an analysis of Tarasque from a religious anthropological perspective , La Tarasque: essai de description d'un fait local d'un point de vue ethnographique .

Between 1951 and 1955 Dumont taught at Oxford University , in 1955 he became director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . In the following period Dumont had several study visits to Uttar Pradesh . In 1978 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences } and the British Academy .

Views and theses

Dumont's theoretical work contributed to understanding the dimensions of hierarchical relationships. Dumont assumed that there was a hierarchy behind every distinction, behind every pair of opposites. Dumont's work on the Indian caste system testifies to structuralist ideas. Dumont also elaborated theses on Western society, in particular on individualism , and on the theory of alliances .

Fonts

  • La Tarasque: essai de description d'un fait local d'un point de vue ethnographique. Gallimard, Paris 1957.
  • Une sous-caste de l'Inde du sud. Organization sociale et religion of Pramalai Kallar. Mouton, La Haye-Paris 1964.
  • La civilization indienne et nous: esquisse de sociologie comparée. Armand Colin, Paris 1967.
  • Homo hierarchicus. Essai sur le système des castes. Gallimard, Paris 1971.
  • Introduction à deux théories d'anthropologie sociale: groupes de filiation et alliance de mariage. Mouton, Paris-La Haye 1971.
  • Homo Æqualis I: genèse et épanouissement de l'idéologie économique; II: l'Idéologie allemande. Gallimard / BSH, Paris 1978.
  • Essais sur l'individualisme. Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne. Le Seuil, Paris 1985.

literature

  • Gerald Berthoud, Giovanni Busino (eds.): L'Exploration de la modernité: la démarche de Louis Dumont: études. Droz, Geneva 1984.
  • Jean-Claude Galey (Ed.): Différences, valeurs, hiérarchie. Texts offerts à Louis Dumont. Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. 1984.
  • Free University of Berlin, Otto-Suhr Institute, Office for Politics of China and East Asia (Berlin), German Society for East Asian Studies (Hamburg): International Asia Forum: International quarterly for Asian studies, Volume 30. Weltform Verlag, Munich [etc.], 1999, P. 223.
  • Nicolas Journet: Louis Dumont (1911-1998). Des castes à l'individu. In: Sciences Humaines. No. 134, January 2003, pp. 40-42.
  • TN Madan (Ed.): Way of life: king, householder, renouncer: essays in honor of Louis Dumont. Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi 1982.
  • Raphael Rousseleau: Entre folklore et isolat: le local. La question tribale en Inde, de Mauss à Dumont. In: Social Anthropology. 11 (2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, pp. 189-213.
  • Gérard Toffin: Louis Dumont 1911-1998 In: L'homme 39 (1999), No. 150, pp. 7-13.
  • Stéphane Vibert: Louis Dumont. Holisme et modernité. Michalon, Paris 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dumont, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumont, Louis Charles Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1998
Place of death Paris