Power, Gender, and Mobility: Aspects of Indo-European Society

Author:   Riccardo Ginevra ,  Stefan Höfler ,  Birgit Anette Olsen ,  Janus Bahs Jacquet
Publisher:   Museum Tusculanum Press
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Pages:   450
Publication Date:   09 September 2024
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Author:   Riccardo Ginevra ,  Stefan Höfler ,  Birgit Anette Olsen ,  Janus Bahs Jacquet
Publisher:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9788763547284


ISBN 10:   8763547287
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   09 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Stefan Höfler, Riccardo Ginevra, & Birgit Anette Olsen Introduction. Aspects of Indo-European Society PART I: GENDER, POWER, AND LANGUAGE Ulla Remmer How (not) to name a woman in Indo-European. The evidence of female onomastics for the status of women in Indo-European societies Stefan Höfler Gender in Indo-European. A synopsis Jil Schermutzki Pan, Pu?an, and their matrimonial status Michael Janda The charioteer Athena as goddess of warriors. Constellations and their role in the prehistory of Greek religion Michael Weiss Quaecumque a Benveniste dicta essent, commenticia esse PART II: POWER, MOBILITY, AND CONFLICT Peter Jackson Rova The Wolf, the Lamb, and the Dog. An Aesopian guide to Indo-European sociology José Luis García Ramón On the prehistory of legal language and procedure. Repairing a misdeed in Proto-Indo-European and Core Indo-European Riccardo Ginevra Indo-European patrons vs. clients, and the role of poets as social brokers. ‘Leaders’ vs. ‘friends’ and intelligent speakers in the mythologies of Scandinavia, India, and Rome Rune Iversen The violent Indo-Europeans. Some general thoughts on the martial influence of the Corded Ware on Neolithic societies PART III: MOBILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Mikkel Nørtoft An update on the formation and spread of the Corded Ware culture. Human–canid relations, and its tooth and shell status items Birgit Anette Olsen In-laws and outlaws in Indo-European societies. The master of the house and his circles of interest Jan N. Bremmer Indo-European initiation. The Greek contribution Kim McCone (Proto-)Indo-European age-based male social hierarchies and groupings. Age-grades, sodalities, coevals, age-sets, and the origins of Rome’s curiae (including the curia ‘senate-house’)

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Riccardo Ginevra is Ricercatore of Historical and General Linguistics at the Department of Classical Philology, Papyrology and Historical Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He has formerly been a Fellow (2019–2021) and an Associate (2021–2023) at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2020–2021) at the University of Copenhagen. His research mainly deals with topics of Indo-European formulaicity and mythology, with a special focus on the Germanic, Greek, and Indic traditions. Stefan Höfler is a lecturer in Indo-European Studies at the University of Vienna and postdoc fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Vienna in 2017 and has since been a lecturer at Harvard University (2017–2018) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen (2019–2021). His research focuses on Indo-European nominal morphology and morphosyntax. Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and previously leader of the five-year University of Copenhagen excellence programme Roots of Europe (20082013). She has published in particular about the Classical Armenian language and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages. Janus Bahs Jacquet holds a BA in Chinese and an MA in Indo-European Studies specialising in Celtic languages, both from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2015 he has worked as an editor with Museum Tusculanum Press.

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