Dumont, Louis

Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist, born in Greece in 1911 and died in Paris in 1998. He rejected the intellectual life that his mother had hoped for after his father died when Dumont was young, and worked as a manual laborer and at, among other places, the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris in 1936. It was there that he became attracted to history and the social sciences and chose an academic career. His first ethnographic work, Une Sous‐Caste de l'Inde du Sud (1957), was followed by other works on kinship theory pertaining to India, especially influenced by the famous French anthropologist Claude Lévi‐Strauss. To all social scientists, however, his most famous work will always be Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications , published in French in 1966 and translated into English in 1970. It has come to be seen as the definitive analysis of the Indian caste system

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