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This is a fascinating collection of scholarly essays on Indo-European religions and mythologies by a leading specialist in the field. While focusing on beliefs about death and dying, and on practices of legitimized killing (as in war and sacrifice), Lincoln (religious studies, Univ. of Minnesota) expresses his doubts against the existence of a prototypical Indo-European religion. Extensive examples are given and comparisons are drawn among Greek, Roman, Nordic, Celtic, British, Indian, and Iranian beliefs and practices. This excellent source for students of mythology and religion is highly recommended for religion and mythology collections of academic and large public libraries. It will appeal to readers of popular mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell as well as to scholars.
- Marilyn E. Schafer, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic Coll., Toronto
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Marilyn E. Schafer, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic Coll., Toronto
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European
religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays
his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized
prototypical Indo-European religion.
Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them
previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals
with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized
way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in
descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While
Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain
the best available source of data for the topics they
address.
In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a
single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to
that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters
connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of
antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human
society into an ideologically charged correlation.
Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case
against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture.
Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist
Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings
were informed and inflected by covert political concerns
characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an
invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient
societies, anthropology, and the history of religions.
Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious
studies at the University of Minnesota.
religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays
his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized
prototypical Indo-European religion.
Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them
previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals
with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized
way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in
descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While
Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain
the best available source of data for the topics they
address.
In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a
single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to
that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters
connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of
antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human
society into an ideologically charged correlation.
Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case
against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture.
Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist
Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings
were informed and inflected by covert political concerns
characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an
invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient
societies, anthropology, and the history of religions.
Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious
studies at the University of Minnesota.
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It was not until the end of the eighteenth century-1786, to be exact-that modern researchers recognized the existence of a Proto-Indo-European language and posited, by extension, a Proto-Indo-European people who spoke that language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
funerary geography, focal representative, bipartite society, paradisal realm, wolfish rage, sacrificial dismemberment, red bile, suis partout, social borders, female seed, heathen men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Georges Dumézil, New York, Carl Winter, Atharva Veda, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Clarendon Press, Diodorus Siculus, Herman Lommel, Hermann Güntert, Jan de Vries, Oxford University Press, Walter de Gruyter, Old English, Wise Lord, Bruce Lincoln, Cath Maige Tuired, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Old High German, Textual Notes, Harvard University Press, Max Niemeyer, Mucius Scaevola, Otto Harrassowitz, Stig Wikander New!
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It was not until the end of the eighteenth century-1786, to be exact-that modern researchers recognized the existence of a Proto-Indo-European language and posited, by extension, a Proto-Indo-European people who spoke that language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
funerary geography, focal representative, bipartite society, paradisal realm, wolfish rage, sacrificial dismemberment, red bile, suis partout, social borders, female seed, heathen men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Georges Dumézil, New York, Carl Winter, Atharva Veda, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Clarendon Press, Diodorus Siculus, Herman Lommel, Hermann Güntert, Jan de Vries, Oxford University Press, Walter de Gruyter, Old English, Wise Lord, Bruce Lincoln, Cath Maige Tuired, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Old High German, Textual Notes, Harvard University Press, Max Niemeyer, Mucius Scaevola, Otto Harrassowitz, Stig Wikander New!
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- Teutonic Mythology, 4 VolumeSet (Phoenix Edition) by Jacob Grimm on 5 pages
- The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications) by Ilya Gershevitch on 5 pages
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 4 pages
- Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction by Bruce Lincoln on 4 pages
- Abridged Greek-English Lexicon by H. G. Liddell on page 59, page 102, and page 135
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