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Portal icon Anthropology portal </wiki/Portal:Anthropology> * v </wiki/Template:Anthropology_collapsible> * t </wiki/Template_talk:Anthropology_collapsible> * e <//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Anthropology_collapsible&acti on=edit> For the Genevan political writer, see Pierre tienne Louis Dumont </wiki/Pierre_%C3%89tienne_Louis_Dumont>. *Louis Dumont* (1911 November 19, 1998) was a French anthropologist </wiki/Anthropologist>. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki </wiki/Thessaloniki>, Ottoman Empire </wiki/Ottoman_Empire>. He was an associate professor at Oxford University </wiki/Oxford_University> during the 1950s, and director at the /cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales </wiki/%C3%89cole_des_Hautes_%C3%89tudes_en_Sciences_Sociales>/ (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India </wiki/India>, Dumont also studied western </wiki/Western_culture> social philosophy and ideologies. Works [edit </w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&action=edit&section=1>] His works include /Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le systme des castes </wiki/Homo_Hierarchicus>/ (1966), /From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology/ (1977) and /Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idologie moderne/ (1983), in which he contrasts holism </wiki/Holism> with individualism </wiki/Individualism>. His studies on Indian society paved the way for the development of the culturological approach to the study of Indian society. The culturological approach identifies itself closely with the indological approach.^[/citation needed </wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>/] Dumont died, aged 87, in Paris </wiki/Paris>. See also [edit </w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&action=edit&section=2>] * Alliance theory </wiki/Alliance_theory> External links [edit </w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&action=edit&section=3>] * Allen, N. J. (1998). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (19111998)"

<http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ISCA/JASO/JASO_Archive_pdfs/1998_JASO_29 .pdf>. /Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO)/ *XXIX* (1): 14. * Good, Anthony (5 December 1998). "Obituary: Professor Louis Dumont" <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-professor-louis-du mont-1189259.html>. The Independent. Retrieved 25 September 2012. * Beteille, Andre (January 9,1999). "Obituary: Louis Dumont(19111998)" <http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1999_34/01-02/Obituary__Louis_Dumont_191 198.pdf>. /Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)/. Authority control </wiki/Authority_control> * VIAF </wiki/Virtual_International_Authority_File>: 68928436 <http://viaf.org/viaf/68928436> Persondata </wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata> Name Dumont, Louis Alternative names Short description Date of birth 1911 Place of birth Date of death November 19, 1998 Place of death Stub icon </wiki/File:French_university_icon.png> /This biographical article about a French academic is a stub </wiki/Wikipedia:Stub>. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it <//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&action=edit>./ * v </wiki/Template:France-academic-bio-stub> * t </wiki/Template_talk:France-academic-bio-stub> * e <//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:France-academic-bio-stub&acti on=edit> Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&oldid=550159588 <//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Dumont&oldid=550159588>" Categories </wiki/Help:Categories>: * * * * 1911 births </wiki/Category:1911_births> 1998 deaths </wiki/Category:1998_deaths> French anthropologists </wiki/Category:French_anthropologists> French academic biography stubs </wiki/Category:French_academic_biography_stubs>

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