Dimensions
140 x 216 x 14mm
The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern
individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the
earlier structuralism of Claude Lvi-Strauss. One such advance is
Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a
truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Lvi-Strauss's
binary opposition. In ......