Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here
in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts
and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the
institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds
of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom,
ancient economy, and kinship. A comprehensive and comparative
history of words with analyses of their underlying neglected
genealogies and structures of signification and this via a
masterful journey through Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, Latin,
and Greek languages Benveniste's dictionary is a must-read for
anthropologists, linguists, literary theorists, classicists, and
philosophers alike. This book has famously inspired a wealth of
thinkers, including Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss, Pierre
Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Agamben, Fran ois
Jullien, and many others. In this new volume, Benveniste's
masterpiece on the study of language and society finds new life for
a new generation of scholars. As political fictions continue to
separate and reify differences between European, Middle Eastern,
and South Asian societies, Benveniste reminds us just how
historically deep their interconnections are and that understanding
the way our institutions are evoked through the words that describe
them is more necessary than ever.
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