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Název:		Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice
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Rok vydání:		1991
Identifikátory:		9780226482002

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Anotace:	One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European <BR>religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays <BR>his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized <BR>prototypical Indo-European religion. <BR><BR>Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them <BR>previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals <BR>with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized <BR>way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in <BR>descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While <BR>Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain <BR>the best available source of data for the topics they <BR>address. <BR><BR>In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a <BR>single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to <BR>that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters <BR>connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of <BR>antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human <BR>society into an ideologically charged correlation. <BR><BR>Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case <BR>against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture. <BR>Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist <BR>Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings <BR>were informed and inflected by covert political concerns <BR>characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an <BR>invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient <BR>societies, anthropology, and the history of religions. <BR><BR>Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious <BR>studies at the University of Minnesota.
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