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1 online resource (585 p.) |
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Cover -- The Indo-Europeans -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- The official Indo-European hypothesis: The twelve canonical theses -- Untitled -- I OVERTURE -- From the Renaissance to the French Revolution -- 1. The search for a long-anticipated discovery -- The Indo-European "Golden Legend" -- Uncertain inventors -- The search for an anticipated discovery -- A recurring discovery? -- Why was Leibniz unable to publish in German? -- Schizophrenic Europeans -- The slow secularization of the world -- India, an alternative myth -- II FIRST MOVEMENT (1814-1903) |
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All is resolved! -- 2. The invention of comparative grammar -- The search for origins -- On the superiority of (Indo-) European languages -- Comparative grammar, a German science? -- Colonialism as an understanding of history -- August Schleicher and the botany of languages -- The young Turks of comparative grammar -- Other possible models so soon? -- 3. From India to Germania, the return of the wheeled cradle -- The Indian cradle -- An ephemeral Earthly Paradise -- The return of the homeland -- Those who refused to repatriate the homeland -- From texts to objects -- Imagined communities |
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The rise of archaeological excavations -- More primitive -- Bathing, kissing, and chastity -- Linguistics of absence -- The return to Germania -- Pan-Germanism and anti-Semitism -- Occultist beliefs -- The ambiguities of official linguistics -- 4. The invention of "scientific racism" -- God and the polygenists -- The art of measuring skulls -- From divine right to nation -- The terrors of the "Count" de Gobineau -- A science of man? -- Who are the French? -- On the origins of the Aryans -- Are the Prussians German? |
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The three positions of French anthropologists on the Indo-European question -- Moderation among German anthropologists -- Does "race" exist? -- The Count and the Aryan -- Sex, fantasies, and racisms -- The first symptoms of political racism -- The mismeasure of man -- III SECOND MOVEMENT (1903-1945) -- Crimes and errors -- 5. From comparative grammar to linguistics: A language of leaders? -- The ambiguities of Ferdinand de Saussure -- Antoine Meillet, chief and master -- A language of chiefs -- Do you speak a "language of civilization"? |
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An instinct for conquest and a love of wide open spaces -- Linguistic sentiment? -- Meillet versus Schuchardt -- The triumph of structural linguistics -- And what if there never had been an Original People? -- 6. From Aryan Pan-Germanism to Nazism -- The methods of archaeology -- Kossinna's law -- The Kossinnian Indo-German narrative -- "A pre-eminently national discipline" -- Erasing the memory of Kossinna -- Nazism, one of the possible horizons for the Aryans -- The Atlantis of the Far North -- Sects and secret societies -- Hitler himself was not a believer -- The rallying of archaeologists |
| Summary |
The book explores a famous, unresolved, historical problem: How is it that all the languages of Europe and parts of Asia belong to a single family of Indo-European languages? The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West by Jean-Paul Demoule offers a survey of the historiography of the Indo-European debate across several centuries and disciplines and poses a devastating challenge to the Indo-European origin story at its roots |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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SS against SA and the pillaging of conquered lands |
| Subject |
Indo-Europeans -- Ethnic identity
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Indo-Europeans -- Historiography
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Ethnology -- Political aspects
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Civilization, Western
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Indo-European languages -- History
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Civilization, Western.
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Ethnology -- Political aspects.
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Indo-European languages.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197506493 |
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0197506496 |
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