The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : Language, material culture and ethnicity / edited by George Erdosy
- Bib ID:
- 2975564
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1995
- xxii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 3110144476 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Indian philology and South Asian studies, 0948-1923 ; v. 1.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Erdosy, George
- Copyright:
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