The work of anthropologist Louis Dumont, who would have been 100 years old on the 1st August 2011, remains hotly debated (see a recent analysis of his political thought on this site). The latest example is by American anthropologist Kamala Visweswaran, who reconsiders the notions of culture, race and caste in social sciences and addresses core issues in the sociology of India.
Responding to Alexander Tzonis’ review of Spirit of the Cities, the book on urban ethoses he wrote with Avner de-Shalit, Daniel A. Bell defends their way of doing political theory and some of their unconventional qualitative methods of exploring the experience of urban life.