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Loading... Affinity As a Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, With Comparative Essays on Australiaby Louis Dumont
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Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work into a comparison of the values of Indian and western society in works like Essays on Individualism (1986) and German ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1994). He is also known for pioneering work on kinship in south India and more generally (for example Affinity as a Value, 1983). The current volume represents the fruits of this side of his activities and originated in as a series of lectures providing an account of the British and French schools for students. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.83Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Marriage and Parenting KinshipLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |