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The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : language, material culture and ethnicity
- Title
- The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : language, material culture and ethnicity / edited by George Erdosy.
- Publication
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1995.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Erdosy, George.
- Description
- xxii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Indian philology and South Asian studies, 0948-1923 ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- Indian philology and South Asian studies ; v. 1.
- Subject
- Indo-Aryans
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Indo-Aryans > South Asia > Languages
- Indo-Aryans > Material culture > South Asia
- Manners and customs
- Ethnology
- Cultural Characteristics
- Ethnology
- Anthropology, Cultural
- ethnology
- social anthropology
- customs (social concepts)
- 15.75 history of Asia
- Manners and customs
- Civilization
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Indo-Aryans
- Geschichte
- Indoarier
- Indoarische Sprachen
- Kultur
- Ethnologie
- Indo-Arische talen
- Cultuur
- Voorindiërs
- Indo-Aryens
- Langues indo-aryennes
- South Asia > Civilization
- South Asia
- Südasien
- Asie du Sud > Civilisation
- Toronto <1991>
- Indoarische Sprachen
- Indogermanen
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives / George Erdosy -- 2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy -- 3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda / Madhav M. Deshpande -- 4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres / Michael Witzel -- 5. The concepts of "cultural tradition" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology / Jim G. Shaffer and Diane A. Lichtenstein -- 6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians / P. Oktor Skjaervo -- 7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations / Arvind Sharma -- 8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective / Fredrik T. Hiebert -- 9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence / Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. -- 10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia / Jonathan M. Kenoyer -- 11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory / Franklin C. Southworth -- 12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan / Kenneth R. Norman -- 13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Ksatriya Sanskrit and related problems / Richard Salomon -- 14. Rgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities / Michael Witzel.
- 15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence / Asko Parpola -- 16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence / Harri Nyberg.
- ISBN
- 3110144476
- 9783110144475
- LCCN
- 95008098
- OCLC
- ocm32168436
- 32168436
- SCSB-2073033
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library