Axel Michaels’s essay on Louis Dumont’s call for a new relationship between Indology and anthropology is detailed and thorough, though not shocking to many of us who have tilled these fields for some time. Dumont was a curiously influential figure, who stood at the crossroads of many important streams of thought, including French structuralism, British social anthropology, a certain sort of Indology and a typically French tradition of hostility to empiricism which inclined him to privilege the role of ideology in social life and to project that view onto his areas of study, notably onto India. He also strived to mark himself off from the great Claude Levi-Strauss, whose grand sweep included the simple forest societies of Brazil, the mysteries of the human brain and the abstractions of the cerebral savage.

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阿克塞尔·迈克尔斯（Axel Michaels）关于路易·杜蒙（Louis Dumont）呼吁在印度学和人类学之间建立新关系的文章详尽而透彻，尽管这并没有使我们中的许多人感到震惊。杜蒙（Dumont）是一位很有影响力的人物，他站在许多重要思想流的十字路口，包括法国结构主义，英国社会人类学，某种印度学和典型的法国对经验主义的敌对传统，这使他倾向于享受意识形态的作用并把这种观点投射到他的研究领域，尤其是印度。他还努力与伟大的克劳德·列维·斯特劳斯（Claude Levi-Strauss）脱颖而出，克劳德·列维·斯特劳斯（Claude Levi-Strauss）的大手笔包括巴西的简单森林社会，人脑的奥秘和脑野蛮的抽象。