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'''Louis Charles Jean Dumont''' (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)<ref>{{cite web |title=MatchID |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/_nTg4kCSrvxc}}</ref> was a French [[anthropologist]].
'''Louis Charles Jean Dumont''' (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)<ref>{{cite web |title=MatchID |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/_nTg4kCSrvxc}}</ref> was a [[French people|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 culture|western]] social philosophy and ideologies.
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 culture|western]] social philosophy and ideologies.

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Louis Dumont
Born11 August 1911
Died19 November 1998(1998-11-19) (aged 87)
NationalityFrench
CitizenshipFrance
Employer(s)Oxford University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Notable workHomo Hierarchicus
SpouseSuzanne Tardieu

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.

Works

His works include Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966), From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (1977) and Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne (1983), in which he contrasts holism with individualism.

Dumont died in 1998, aged 87, in Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "MatchID".
  2. ^ Allen, N. J. (1998). "Obituary: Louis Dumont (1911-1998)" (PDF). Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. XXIX (1): 1–4.[permanent dead link]