UID:
edocfu_9959233939302883
Format:
1 online resource (444 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2012
ISBN:
3-11-081643-1
Series Statement:
Indian Philology and South Asian Studies ; 1
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Foreword to the Series --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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List of contributors --
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I. Theoretical perspectives --
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1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives /
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2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races /
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3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda /
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4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres /
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5. The concepts of "cultural traditon" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology /
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6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians /
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7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations /
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II Historical perspectives --
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8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective /
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9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence /
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10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia /
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11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory /
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12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan /
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13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Ksatriya Sanskrit and related problems /
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14. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities /
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15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence /
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16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence /
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Author Index --
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General Index --
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Backmatter
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-014447-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-27515-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110816433
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