Louis Dumont
1911
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1998
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Institut d'ethnologie, Lycée Saint-Louis, École pratique des hautes études, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
occupation: anthropologist, university teacher, sociologist
award received: honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne, Huxley Memorial Medal
student of: Marcel Mauss
Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) 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 (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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