Author: Marta Vannucci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788124605547
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Asko Parpola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190226935
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.

Author: Shrikant G. Talageri
Publisher: Aditya Prakashan, Publishers & Booksellers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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In the present volume,the author has confirmed emphatically that India was also the original homeland not only of the Indo-Aryans but also of the Indo-Iranians and the Indo-Europeans.

Author: George Erdosy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110816431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.

Author: Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900416054X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Here then is the fruit of Elena Kuz'mina's life-long quest for the Indo-Iranians. Already its predecessor ("Otkuda prishli indoarii?," published in 1994) was considered the most comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Indo-Iranians ever published, but in this new, significantly expanded edition (edited by J.P. Mallory) we find an encyclopaedic account of the Andronovo culture of Eurasia. Taking its evidence from archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, mythology, and physical anthropology pertaining to Indo-Iranian origins and expansions, it comprehensively covers the relationships of this culture with neighboring areas and cultures, and its role in the foundation of the Indo-Iranian peoples.

Author: Martin E. Huld
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Man, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780984538355
Category : Indo-European antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Studies in Irish Saga and Celtic Myth; The Hero: Late If Not Last Thoughts¿Dean Miller. From Protected to Protector: Some Legal Language in Cú Chulainn¿s Boyhood Deeds¿Colin Ireland. Extraordinary Beings in Chrétien de Troyes and their Celtic Analogs¿ William Sayers. Láeg¿s Line: A Route for the Gods?¿Richard B. Warner. With One Hand Tied behind his Back: Exploring the Iconography of Single-handed Single Combats¿Paula Powers Coe. Studies in Northwestern European Languages; Dialect and Language Contact in Emerging Germanic¿Benjamin Frey and Joseph Salmons. Taking a Position in Latin¿Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin. Aegean- Anatolian Studies; The Cities of Kumme, Kummanna and their God Tessub / Tei sˇeba¿Armen Petrosyan. A Preliminary Note on Application of Functional Markings to the Scenes Depicted on the Chest of Kypselos¿Chris Lynn. Homeric p°ploς and Hittite pala%sas ¿Jaan Puhvel. Out of Asia; Hobbyhorses¿E.J.W. Barber. Substrate Continuity in Indo-European Religion and Iconography: Seals and Figurines of the Indus Valley¿Culture and Historic Indic Female Figures¿Miriam Robbins Dexter. The Da ̄sas of the ¿gveda as Proto-Sakas of the Yaz I- related Cultures¿With a revised model for the protohistory of Indo- Iranian speakers¿Asko Parpola. The Earliest Identifiable Written Chinese Character¿Victor H. Mair. Technology; Some Observations on the Development of Indo-European Metallurgy¿Martin E. Huld. Publications of J.P. Mallory.

Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054532
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

Author: Colin Renfrew
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521386753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.

Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964985
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field.