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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Totalization and detotalization : Alternatives to hierarchy and individualism
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Alternatives to hierarchy and individualism
Beteiligte:
Rio, Knut M.;
Smedal, Olaf H.
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2008
Erschienen in:
Anthropological Theory, 8 (2008) 3, Seite 233-254
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/1463499608093813
ISSN:
1463-4996;
1741-2641
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<jats:p>This article marks an effort to extend Louis Dumont's concept pair of hierarchy and individualism towards a more realistic understanding of social formations. Dumont's work is reviewed along with his critics, and through a survey of contemporary ethnography a move towards a concept of totalization is suggested. It is argued that a view of totalization and detotalization provides a vocabulary for a re-establishment of the social for the discipline of anthropology.</jats:p>