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The author suggests that Dumézil's most important contribution was his insistence on the ideological character of myth, while other aspects of his writings are more problematic. In particular, he questions whether Dumézil's affinity for Charles Maurras and the Action Française led him to constitute diverse data as an idealized »system of three functions.« Going beyond the question of Dumézil per se, and invoking the example of Procopius, Vandalic War 1.2.2-5, he treats the notion of an »Indo-European« people as a discursive construct that attempts to dissolve the diversity of historically attested evidence in an almost mythic narrative of unity and perfection in the most ancient past. 1 Dumézil's earlier position is evident, for example, in Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus. Essai sur la conception indo-européenne de la Société et sur les origines de Rome, Paris 1941. His later stance is articulated most clearly in Uidéologie tripartie des indo-européens, Brussels 1958, having been announced already in Rituels indo-européens à Rome, Paris 1954, 7.
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The publication under review is a perfectly prepared edition, arranged according to the conceptual form of encyclopedic entries. It contains both the standard headings (e.g. Illyrian language, pp. 287-289; Indo-European homeland, pp. Ż90-299; Jastorf culture, pp' 321-322) and the typical lexical entries (e.g. insects, p. 312, with hve nominal lexemes; Jump, pp. 323-324, rł'ith ten verbal roots), accompanied with plentiful tables, sketches, cfossreferences and bibliographical sources. There are useful indexes (Language index, pp. 659193, and General index, pp. 795-8Ż3), which permit us to find a question with no problem.
In Pursuit of Origins: The Challenges of Tracing the Indo European Homeland
Roots of Europe Project, 2023
The study of the Indo-European homeland requires a multidisciplinary approach to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the cultural and religious phenomena, socio-economic conditions, and linguistic history associated with the origin of the Indo-European language and culture. This article proposing several approaches to achieve this goal, including an integrative approach that emphasizes the interaction between different scientific disciplines, a multi/interdisciplinary approach that combines various scientific methods to study related topics, a systemic (global) transdisciplinary approach that creates a common cognitive-epistemological structure to unite all disciplinary languages, a holistic (complex) analysis that combines several disciplines in a single research project, and a contextual approach that takes into account the historical and cultural context of the object of study. Each of these approaches has its advantages and disadvantages, and they can be used in combination to avoid the trap of dichotomous consciousness and achieve a comprehensive understanding of the Indo-European Homeland paradigm.
The Indo European language as a derivative of the change in the axis of religious worship
Roots of Europe Project, 2023
This article proposing several approaches to Indo-European Homeland study, including an integrative , multi/interdisciplinary , systemic (holistic) transdisciplinary approach and contextual approach . Transdisciplinary, holistic, integrative and contextual approaches would allow to use Max Weber's social theory of systematic religion origin. Contrary to the general trend of seeing world historical processes as the result of various factors of world development, Weber saw the possibility of the influence of individual ideas and specific historical figures in shaping the conditions for the emergence of religion and reforming the old system religious worldview. This changed the modality of understanding the past. Modern historical sciences exclude the role of individual innovators in shaping historical change, using typological methods of analyzing material culture. Archaeology, Historical Linguistics, Anthropology, and Population Genetics all use methods that overlook the role of important inventions made by individual innovators that may impact society. Each of these approaches has its advantages and disadvantages, and they can be used in combination to avoid the trap of dichotomous consciousness and achieve a comprehensive understanding of the Indo-European Homeland paradigm.
Journal of Indo-European Studies 18, 1990
After a critical survey of previous Indo-European Cultural Studies methodology, the author demonstrates the usefulness of recent anthropological and linguistic theories for the development of a modern hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European.
Indo-Europeanization – the seven dimensions in the study of a never-ending process
Documenta Praehistorica, 2007
This contribution focuses on the multifaceted process of Indo-Europeanization which started out, in the Pontic-Caspian region, with the formation of a distinct ethno-cultural epicenter, the Proto-Indo-European complex. Since the late Neolithic, the Indo-Europeanization of Europe and parts of Asia produced various scenarios of contact and conflict. Altogether seven dimensions are highlighted as essential for the study of the contacts which unfolded between Indo-Europeans and non-Indo-European populations (i.e. Uralians, Caucasians, ancient populations in southern and central Europe). Selective aspects of cultural and linguistic fusion processes during the Neolithic and subsequent periods are discussed, and the controversial term ‘migration’ is redefined.