... and Alfred Senn (eds.), Indo-European and Indo-Europeans. Papers Presented at the Third Indo-European Conference at the University of Pennsylvania . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 440. 1 I refer to the theories of Dumézil and Stig Wikander that proceeded from Wikander's...

...J. F. Richards Abstract For thirty-five years a major scholarly dialogue, (which often spilled over into abrasive debate) has enlivened the study of comparative Indo-European religions and mythology. At the center of this academic storm is Georges Dumézil, whose brilliant insights into the nature...

...Alf Hiltebeitel Abstract Georges Dumézil's research on the myths, legends, rites, and social structures—in short, what he calls the “ideology”—of the Indo-Europeans has had, for the most part, considerable impact upon recent scholarly interpretation of the various Indo-European traditions...

...C. Scott Littleton Abstract It should be emphasized at the outset that Georges Dumézil does not consider himself to be a social theorist of any sort, least of all a “structuralist.” Indeed, his opinion of the structuralist movement, to say nothing of the extent to which others have attempted...

...Alf Hiltebeitel Mythologies du XXe siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade) . By Daniel Dubuisson . Lille : Presses Universitaires de Lille . 1993 . 348 pp. 130 FF. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in most films (one...

...J. Gonda Abstract In a long series of important and stimulating publications Georges Dumézil has for almost half a century not only re-established a complex of theories with regard to the comparative study of ancient Indo-European mythology, but also applied a modernized comparative method...

...Ronald Inden Mitra-Varuṇa: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty . By Georges Dumézil . Translated by Derek Coltman . New York : Zone Books , 1988 . 189 pp. $21.95. The Destiny of a King . By Georges Dumézil . Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel . Chicago...

... reviews extant literature but also adds new insights into the origins of the Korean quagmire. B. C. KOH University of Illinois at Chicago SOUTH ASIA Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. By GEORGES DUMEZIL. Translated by DEREK COLTMAN. New York: Zone Books, 1988. 189...

... of Princely Association in India 755 RUDOLPH, SUSANNE HOEBER AND LLOYD i. with MOHAN SINGH. A Bureaucratic Lineage in Princely India: Elite Formation and Conflict in a Patrimonial System 717 Symposium: The Achievement of Georges Dumezil RICHARDS, j . F. Introduction 127 HILTEBEITEL, A. Dumezil and Indian...

... can be trifunctional, and by explaining away the occasional crumbling (emiettement) of one or another of the functions (pp. 98-105). Attributing trifunctionalism to the "three sins of Rama," he does not observe Dumezil's restraints (in Destiny of the Warrior) of limiting such arguments to sequential...

.... Decades ago, Georges Dumezil had already shown that the tripartite division of society served as a principle of classification and organization among the Indo-European peoples of antiquity, with special reference to ancient India. The most unique contribution of this book is the author's careful...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES his method stands as one possible local strategy for the study of Vedic religion. Any student of the Vedas would thus do well to read Dumezil's work, but to do so critically. RONALD INDEN University of Chicago Collective Action and Community: Public Arenas and the Emergence...

... his objectives and method, and by referring briefly to previous interpretations of the MBh and Siva's role in it, particularly the interpretation of Georges Dumezil (Mythe et epopee, 3 vols. [Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1968 19733), whom he credits with inspiring this work. In fact, however, Scheuer's...

... chose to investigate, in degree of governmental specialization and his style of thought, and his conclusions to centralization. On a continuum of govern- those of the Annie Sociologique school, in- 419 420 eluding Durkheim, Mauss, and Van Gennep, all of whom together with Dumezil, Hocart (apparently...

... peoples like the Andaman Islanders, Todas, and Veddas are included but the voluminous books of Shirokogoroff on the Tungus and Barton's on the Ifugaos are not included. An obscure book by O'Malley on Indian Caste Customs (1932) is included, but the much more important works of Bougie, Hocart, Dumezil...

..., and Van Gennep, all of whom together with Dumezil, Hocart (apparently embittered by lack of academic preferment) either overlooked in his writing or curtly dismissed. Moved by Hocart's efforts to illumine the past and by the methods he used, Needham urges on his fellow social anthropologists more concern...

... appreciating the insights offered in such a heterogeneous collection. PANIVONG NORINDR The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mythologies du XXe siecle (Dumezil, Levi-Strauss, Eliade). By D A N I E L DUBUISSON. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille. 1993- 348 pp. 130 FF. The overriding impression of this book...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES "powers" outside individual control, the spiritual attitude to the self and to the superior power of "tengger," "the sky above." This unity is not so surprising when we recall the work of Georges Dumezil concerning the ancient connections between Indo-Aryan cultures from Rome to India. So...

..." outside individual control, the spiritual attitude to the self and to the superior power of "tengger," "the sky above." This unity is not so surprising when we recall the work of Georges Dumezil concerning the ancient connections between Indo-Aryan cultures from Rome to India. So this special attention...

... [ R O B E R T ERIC FRYKENBERG] D O N N A N , Marriage Among Muslims: Preferences and Choice in Northern Pakistan [GREGORY c. KOZLOWSKI] DUMEZIL; COLTMAN (trans Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty [RONALD I N D E N ] DUMEZIL; HILTEBEITEL (trans The Destiny...