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UNINA9910453514703321 |
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Titolo |
The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : Language, material culture and ethnicity / / edited by George Erdosy |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Walter de Gruyter, , 1995 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2012] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (444 p.) |
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Collana |
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Indian Philology and South Asian Studies ; ; 1 |
Indian philology and South Asian studies ; ; v. 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indo-Aryan languages |
Indo-Aryans |
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South Asia Civilization |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Foreword to the Series -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- I. Theoretical perspectives -- 1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives / Erdosy, George -- 2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races / Kennedy, Kenneth A. R. -- 3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda / Deshpande, Madhav M. -- 4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres / Witzel, Michael -- 5. The concepts of "cultural traditon" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology / Shaffer, Jim G. / Lichtenstein, Diane A. -- 6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians / Skjaervø, P. Oktor -- 7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations / Sharma, Arvind -- II Historical perspectives -- 8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective / Hiebert, Fredrik T. -- 9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence / Fairservis, Walter A. -- 10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia / Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark -- 11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory / |
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Southworth, Franklin C. -- 12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan / Norman, K.R. -- 13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Ksatriya Sanskrit and related problems / Salomon, Richard -- 14. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities / Witzel, Michael -- 15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence / Parpola, Asko -- 16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence / Nyberg, Harri -- Author Index -- General Index -- Backmatter |
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