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Louis Dumont
Born	11 August 1911 Thessaloniki,Salonica,Ottoman Empire
Died	19 November 1998(1998-11-19) (aged 87) Paris,Ile-de-France,France
Citizenship	France
Employer(s)	Oxford University,École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Notable work	Homo Hierarchicus
Spouse	Suzanne Tardieu

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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998)^[1] was a Frenchanthropologist.

Dumont was born inThessaloniki, in theSalonica Vilayet of theOttoman Empire. He taught atOxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of theÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies ofIndia, Dumont also studiedwestern social philosophy and ideologies.

His works includeHomo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966),From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (1977) andEssais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne (1983), in which he contrastsholism withindividualism.

Dumont died in 1998, aged 87, inParis.^[2]

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