Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of...
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Louis Dumont may refer to: Louis Dumont (1911–1998), French anthropologist Louis Dumont (ice hockey) (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player Pierre Étienne...
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Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (18 January or 18 July 1759 – 29 September 1829), sometimes anglicised as Stephen Dumont, was a Swiss French political writer...
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Dumont is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adèle Dumont d'Urville (1798–1842), wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named Adélie...
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont, (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of...
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Jean-Louis Dumont (born 6 April 1944 in Jonville-en-Woëvre) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Meuse department, and is...
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as a form of communication that anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss, Louis Dumont or Rodney Needham have described. Alliance theory hence tries to understand...
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Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is Louis Dumont's treatise on the Indian caste system. It analyses the caste hierarchy and the...
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boomerang" which could be thrown up to 100 yards (91 m). Writing in 1957, Louis Dumont noted that despite the weapon's frequent mention in literature, it had...
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(1988). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 360. ISBN 978-81-208-0527-9. Chattopadhyaya...
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