Jean-Paul Dumont
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology
Jean-Paul Dumont has devoted his career to examining how meaning is constructed. Originally trained in anthropology in France under Lévi-Strauss, Dumont later earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include: Under the Rainbow, a structural analysis of the symbolic system of the Panare Indians in Venezuela; The Headman and I, an exploration of the importance of the anthropologist in the ethnographic experience; and Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (1992). Dumont's current research centers on the peasant cultures of the Philippine lowlands. He joined George Mason University in 1988 and develops further his interest in ethnographic representation and interpretation with his ethnographic research in the central Philippines.
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