Louis Dumont

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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)^[1] was a French anthropologist.

Louis Dumont
Born	11 August 1911 Thessaloniki, Salonica, Ottoman Empire
Died	19 November 1998(1998-11-19) (aged 87) Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nationality	French
Citizenship	France
Employer(s)	Oxford University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Notable work	Homo Hierarchicus
Spouse	Suzanne Tardieu

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

• Alliance theory