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- Doctorate Anthropology Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Louis Charles Jean Dumont 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 in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies.
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- Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (1966) (1605)
- Essays on individualism : modern ideology in anthropological perspective (1988) (455)
- From Mandeville to Marx: The genesis and triumph of economic ideology (1977) (288)
- Homo hierarchicus : an essay on the caste system (1972) (171)
- A Modified View of our Origins: The Christian Beginnings of Modern Individualism (1983) (164)
- Essays on Individualism (1986) (144)
- Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship (1958) (132)
- German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1996) (99)
- 54. The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage (1953) (87)
- Religion, politics and history in India (1971) (76)
- RELIGION, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY IN THE INDIVIDUALISTIC UNIVERSE (1970) (75)
- Affinity as a Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, with Comparative Essays on Australia. (1984) (72)
- A South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar (1989) (55)
- On Individualism and Equality (1987) (55)
- On Value (1935) (44)
- Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont (1986) (42)
- The anthropological community and ideology (1979) (41)
- On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus : 10 On Putative Hierarchy and Some Allergies To It (1971) (34)
- Religion, politics and history in India : collected papers in Indian sociology (1971) (34)
- Rājadharma (1976) (30)
- Are Cultures Living Beings? German Identity in Interaction (1986) (26)
- Descent or Intermarriage? A Relational View of Australian Section Systems (1966) (25)
- Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India: The Uses of Ethnography [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (21)
- An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance (2006) (19)
- Homo hierarchicus (1969) (17)
- Purification and characterization of an alkaline elastase from Myxococcus xanthus. (1994) (17)
- Affinity as a value (1983) (14)
- Homo Hierarchichus. The Caste System and Its Implications.@@@Caste and Other Inequities. Essays on Inequality. (1982) (13)
- Terminology and prestations revisited (1975) (13)
- 121. A Remarkable Feature of South Indian Pot-Making (1952) (11)
- Collective Identities and Universalist Ideology: The Actual Interplay (1986) (7)
- The emancipation of economics from morality: Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1975) (6)
- Contributions to Indian Sociology, No. III (1960) (6)
- Elastolytic activity of MAP1, a protease from Myxococcus xanthus. (1994) (4)
- Homo Hierarchicus@@@Religion, Politics and History in India (1973) (4)
- Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India, Agricultural Labour in Madras Presidency in the Nineteenth Century. (1968) (3)
- Charles H. Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform. (1968) (2)
- Aziz Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. (1968) (2)
- Michael Brecher, Nehru, a Political Biography. (1961) (2)
- Transition to Modernity: Left versus Right in French political ideology (1992) (1)
- Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System. (1972) (1)
- Percival Spear, India, a Modern History. (1964) (1)
- M. N. Das, India under Morley and Minto. Politics behind Revolution, Repression and Reforms. (1968) (1)
- Milton Singer, éd., Krishna: Myths, Rites, and Attitudes. (1968) (1)
- Marriott's Review of Dumont's Homo hierarchicus: A Comment (1970) (1)
- K. M. Panikkar, The Foundations of New India. (1968) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Kingship and Community in Early India. Charles Drekmeier (1964) (0)
- Kenneth Ingham, Reformers in India (1793-1833). An Account of the Work of Christian Missionaries on Behalf of Social Reform (1959) (0)
- Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism (1987) (0)
- F. D. K. Bosch, The Golden Germ, an Introduction to Indian Symbolism (1961) (0)
- Paul Huet : (portrait) (0)
- On the Melanesia/Polynesia Division: Mauss's Views (1989) (0)
- George Kurian, The Indian Family in Transition, A Case Study of Kerala Syrian Christians.B. Rambhai, The Silent Revolution. (1964) (0)
- Daniel et Alice Thorner, Land and Labour in India. (1964) (0)
- Preface (1975) (0)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 : 1469-1839. (1968) (0)
- Alien Registration- Dumont, Louis (Lewiston, Androscoggin County) (1940) (0)
- The New Brahmans, Five Maharashtrian Families, selected and transl. by D. D. Karve with the editorial assistance of Ellen E. McDonald. (1968) (0)
- Une sous-caste de l'Inde du sud : organisation sociale et religion des Pramalai Kallar (1959) (0)
- The Role of Tradition in Indian Society (1961) (0)
- Economie Development and Cultural Change. Vol. VIII n° 1, Bernard S. Cohn, « Some Notes on Law and Change in North India », p. 79-93. Vol. VIII n° 2, comptes rendus. (1961) (0)
- R. P. Masani, Britain in Indian. An Account of British Rule in the Indian Subcontinent. (1964) (0)
- Elizabeth von Furer-Haimendorf. An Anthropological Bibliography of South Asia, together with a Directory of recent Anthropological Field Work, with a Forewore, by Chr. von Fürer-Haimendorf. (1961) (0)
- Contributions to Indian Sociology, No. VIII, October 1965 (1966) (0)
- M. N. Srinivas, Caste in Modern India. (1964) (0)
- German Idealism in a Comparative Perspective: Hierarchy in the Thought of Fichte (1985) (0)
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