Author

Louis Dumont

8 books

Books

  1. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications 1966
7 more
  1. A South Indian Sub-caste 1986
  2. From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology 1977
  3. Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective 1983
  4. Religion, politics and history in India 1970
  5. German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back 1995
  6. La Tarasque 1951
  7. Hierarchy and marriage alliance in South Indian kinship 1957

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