Louis Dumont
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.
Works
His works include Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes, From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology and Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne, in which he contrasts holism with individualism.Dumont died in 1998, aged 87, in Paris.