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Record Nr.

UNINA9911025982903321

Autore

Hutton Christopher M

Titolo

The people that never were : linguistic scholarship and the invention of the Aryans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

0-19-021300-0

0-19-021301-9

0-19-021299-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series

Disciplina

305.8914

Soggetti

Indo-Europeans - Origin

Indo-Europeans - Historiography

Indo-Europeans - History

Indo-Aryans - Origin

Indo-Aryans - Historiography

Indo-Aryans - History

Indo-European languages - History

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In The People That Never Were, Christopher M. Hutton takes a fresh look at the term Aryan, making the case that the concept was brought into being by western philology and Indology. Hutton then takes the reader through the history of the concept, beginning with colonial scholarship in India around 1800, and ending in the first decades of the twentieth century. By exploring the complex history of the Aryan paradigm, Hutton raises a challenging set of questions for the modern discipline of linguistics and illuminates the role of linguistic scholarship in political understandings of human diversity.