The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is an encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium holding information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. Encyclopedias are divided into articles with one article on each subject covered. The articles on subjects in an encyclopedia are usually accessed alphabetically by article name and can be contained of Indo-European studies Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, including their society and and the Proto-Indo-Europeans The Proto-Indo-Europeans were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language , an unattested but now reconstructed prehistoric language. The encyclopedia was edited by J. P. Mallory James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast and Douglas Q. Adams and published in 1997 by Fitzroy Dearborn. Archaeological articles are written by Mallory, linguistic articles are written by Adams, and includes a distinguished Who's Who of 1990s Indo-Europeanists who made contributions as sub-editors. While not a polemic A polemic is an argument or controversy made against one opinion, doctrine, or person. A polemic usually addresses serious matters of religious, philosophical, political, or scientific importance, and is often written to dispute or refute a widely accepted position. The word is derived from the Greek polemikos (πολεμικός), meaning ", the work in part responds to Colin Renfrew's Anatolian hypothesis The Anatolian hypothesis is also called Renfrew's Neolithic Discontinuity Theory ; it proposes that the dispersal (discontinuity) of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. The hypothesis suggests that the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) lived in Anatolia during the Neolithic era, and associates the distribution of Indo-European origins The Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses are designed to explain the origins of the Proto-Indo-European language and the people. The identity of the Proto-Indo-Europeans has been a recurring topic in Indo-European studies since the 19th century. Many hypotheses for an Urheimat have been proposed, but none of them has gained general acceptance.
Bibliography
- Mallory, J.P. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique[clarification needed] numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[clarification needed] for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 9781884964985.
- The book in Google Books
Categories: Indo-European Indo-European refers to the Indo-European language family and by extension to cultures and religions associated with these languages, possibly originating in a Bronze Age ethnicity, the Proto-Indo-Europeans | Encyclopedias on culture and ethnicity Categories: Specialized encyclopedias | Culture | Ethnicity | Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture |
