The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern
individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the
earlier structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss. One such advance is
Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a
truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Levi-Strauss's
binary opposition. In this book the author argues that, although
structuralism is often thought to have gone out of fashion,
Dumont's greater concern with praxis and agency makes his own
version of structuralism more contemporary. The work of his
followers and fellow travelers, as well as his own, indicates that
hierarchical opposition is capable of taking structuralism in new
and more realistic directions, reminding us that it has never been
the preserve of Levi-Strauss alone.
Robert Parkin is a social anthropologist who took his doctorate
at the University of Oxford in 1984 for a thesis on kinship in
South and Southeast Asia. His main theoretical interests are in
kinship, religion and identity, and he has conducted research and
field enquiries in Orissa (India), Poland, Italy and Brussels."
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