Archaeology and Language (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Colin Renfrew
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Cultural and linguistic history
- Time of Work: From prehistory to the twentieth century
- Setting: Europe and Asia
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, Linguistics
- Subjects: Culture, History, Europe or Europeans, Linguistics or linguists, Ethnic groups, Western Europe or western Europeans
- Locales: Europe, Asia
In this work, Colin Renfrew confronts issues at once deeply academic and extremely sensitive. On the one hand, it can be assumed that very few people will ever bring themselves to care deeply about the fact that Tocharian, an extinct language of Central Asia, appears to belong to the centum group of languages rather than the satem group. On the other hand, it should be remembered that considerations of very much this type—Norwegian is a “Germanic” language, but Polish is not—affected decisions during World War II as to which populations should be exterminated,...
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