Kin, Clan and Community in Prehistoric Europe: Volume 9 (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European) - Hardcover

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8763546183 ISBN 13: 9788763546188

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK), 2020

Synopsis

This book analyses the latest trends in Indo-European studies, combining linguistic study with insights from archaeology, anthropology and archaeogenetics, in an attempt to shed new light on the social structure of the pastoralist society of Proto-Indo-European speakers. The book opens with a brief introduction on the benefits of approaching Indo-European studies from an anthropological angle. This is followed by nine chapters representing the two main thematic parts of the book: one on kinship terminology and family structure, and one on structures that function across and unite families, namely wooing and marriage. Part one includes a lengthy chapter which gives an overview of Proto-Indo-European terminology, as well as five chapters focusing on individual branches or languages: Anatolian, Avestan, Latin, Germanic and Albanian. Part two starts off with a chapter on how consanguinity affected marriage in various early Indo-European societies, followed by a chapter on Anatolian marriage and marriage types, and finally a chapter on what ancient sources, primarily from Greece, can tell us about processes and rites related to wooing. Together, these studies combine to form the first study of Indo-European family structure to draw on linguistics, archaeology and genetics, and the book is an important contribution to our understanding of how social and family structures developed in prehistoric and early historic times.

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About the Author

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead is associate professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. Her research primarily deals with historical morphology, in particular nominal word formation and composition, focusing especially on Old Indic and Latin languages. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8763546183
• ISBN 13: 9788763546188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 612
• Editor: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Birgit Anette Olsen, Janus Bahs Jacquet