...Steve Barnett; Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Ostor Abstract The importance of Louis Dumont's work—both for specialists in Indian studies and for general social science theory—is by now obvious. Yet, since the publication of the initial volumes of Contributions to Indian Sociology (old series, coedited...

...J. F. Richards; Ralph W. Nicholas Abstract Louis Charles Jean Dumont has been Directeur d'Etudes in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris since 1955. From 1951 until 1955 he was Lecturer in Indian Sociology at the University of Oxford. He began field research in India—among a single Tamil...

...Mark Francillon Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 VOL. XXXV, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1976 Bibliography of Publications of Louis Dumont Editor 1947-48 Le Mots d'Ethnographie franqaise [hereafter MEF]. 20 fascicles, 126 + 147 pp. + Tables. Paris: Musee des...

...Judy F. Pugh Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer—Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont . Edited by T. N. Madan . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House , 1982 . vii, 434 pp. Index. N.p. (Distributed in U.S. and Canada by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.) Copyright © Association for Asian...

... , and Ostor Akos , “Hierarchy Purified: Notes on Dumont and His Critics,” JAS , XXXV , 4 ( 1976 ), pp. 627 –46 . 3 Ibid., pp. 631–36. 4 Marriott and Inden, “Toward an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems,” The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia , ed. Kenneth...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Emigrants, Entrepreneurs, and Evil Spirits: Life in a Philippine Village . By Stephen Griffiths . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . x, 95 pp. $20.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island . By Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1998 . xiv, 314 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Language and Nationalism: The Philippine Experience Thus Far . By Andrew B. Gonzalez . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 1980 . xi, 179 pp. References, Index. $18.95 (cloth); $11.25 (paper). (Distributed by the Cellar Book Shop) Copyright © Association...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Fleurs de Paroles: Histoire Naturelle Palawan. Vol. I : Les Dons de Nägsalad . 374 pp. plus plates. Vol. II: La Maîtrise d'un Savoir et l'Art d'une Relation . By Nicole Revel . Paris : Editions Peeters , 1990 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Spanish Rule . By Vicente L. Rafael . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1988 . xiv, 230 pp. $28.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Inside Philippine Society: Interpretations of Everyday Life . By Niels Mulder . Quezon City : New Day Publishers , 1997 . xii, 154 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 919 and green inks or the lontar...

...J. Moussaieff Masson Abstract Dumont's essay “World Renunciation in Indian Religions,” given as the Frazer lecture at Oxford in 1958, has achieved a considerable reputation; it inspired, for example, J. C. Heesterman's article “Brahmin, Ritual and Renouncer.” Dumont's article is not easy...

...J. Duncan M. Derrett Abstract Louis Dumont has the unique advantage of combining field experience, large ideas, and a basic knowledge of Sanskrit. The patience to master a difficult archaic language, no longer the spoken vehicle of current thoughts in any defined society, is very rare in a scholar...

...Pauline Kolenda Abstract I began the work of this paper by trying to specify the different kinds of “hierarchy” that Louis Dumont uses in Homo Hierarchicus . Such an inventory, I thought, might be helpful to those who find the book difficult to read. Unexpectedly, in the course of the exercise, I...

... Abstract McKim Marriott's item of correspondence, “Interpreting Indian Society: A Monistic Alternative to Dumont's Dualism,” JAS , XXXVI (1976), pp. 189–95, contains the following editorial error: p. 193, paragraph 3 begins, “Dumont's withdrawal from indology …” This should read, “Dumont's...

...Marvin Davis Abstract Hindus regard all humans as fundamentally unequal. Hindu society is organized around groupings of people into ranked castes. On this there is general agreement, as Dumont's apt characterization, Homo hierarchies , affirms and attests. No similar agreement exists, however...

... tradition” and “great community”; these abstractions are useful for describing the intellectual thought and interests of civilizations, and groups of individuals who promote and further these interests. The little tradition by contrast, we agree with Dumont and Pocock, is the whole culture of the little...

... 1989). Indeed, since Dumont (1970a,b) forcefully argued that the values of equality and liberty that support the Western notion of the individual were absent from Indian society, the important roles that personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement play in Indian history have been largely overlooked...

...R. S. Khare "ENCOMPASSING AND ENCOMPASSED": A DEDUCTIVE THEORY OF CASTE SYSTEM R. S. KHARE Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. BY LOUIS DUMONT (Translated by Mark Sainsbury). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. xxii, 386 pp. Appendix, Diagrams, Maps, Notes...

...Gloria Goodwin Raheja A South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar . By Louis Dumont . Translated by Michael Moffatt , L. Morton and A. Morton . Edited by Michael Moffatt . French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society, no. 1. Delhi : Oxford...