Author
Louis Dumont
French anthropologist
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1911
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1998
country of citizenship: France
language of expression: French
educated at: Institut d'ethnologie, Lycée Saint-Louis, École pratique des hautes études
occupation: anthropologist, university teacher, sociologist
award received: honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne
student of: Marcel Mauss
Louis Dumont (1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist.
Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s, and director at 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.
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