 | Louis Dumont - Social Science - 1980 - 542 pages
...the term must be taken as such, and another word should be used to designate the empirical aspect. One will thereby avoid inadvertently attributing the...also avoid making him a universal unit of comparison or element of reference. (Here some will object that all societies recognize the individual in some... | |
 | Richard A. Shweder - Social Science - 1984 - 376 pages
...individuals (262). Dumont's (1970:1, 9) observations on India almost sound redundant. He warns us against "inadvertently attributing the presence of the individual to societies in which he is not recognized", and he points to a relational, contextualized "logic" in which justice consists primarily in "ensuring... | |
 | Anthony J. Marsella, G. White - Social Science - 1982 - 440 pages
...Dumont's (1970:1, 9) observations on India almost sound redundant. He warns us against "inadvertantly attributing the presence of the individual to societies in which he is not recognized", and he points to a relational, contextualized "logic" in which justice consists primarily in "ensuring... | |
 | Michael W. McCann - Business & Economics - 1994 - 704 pages
...should be used (by anthropologists/scholars) in characterizing and analyzing societies, in order to "avoid inadvertently attributing the presence of the...individual to societies in which he is not recognized" (Dumont 1970, 9). In this context, he surmises that "it is immediately obvious that there are two mutually... | |
 | Gayatri Reddy - Social Science - 2010 - 324 pages
...should be used (by anthropologists/scholars) in characterizing and analyzing societies, in order to "avoid inadvertently attributing the presence of the...individual to societies in which he is not recognized" (Dumont 1970, 9). In this context, he surmises that "it is immediately obvious that there are two mutually... | |
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One will thereby avoid inadvertently attributing the presence of the individual to societies in which he is not recognized, and also avoid making him a universal unit of comparison or element of reference. 