Dorothy M. Figueira, Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity
Bhatia, Nandi, The Comparatist
Dorothy M. Figueira, Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002, vii + 205 pp.
In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority throughMyths of Identity, Dorothy Figueira examines a variety of European and Indian thinkers who, by reinterpreting "Aryan texts" in ways that accorded the texts historical value at key historical moments, constructed ideologies of the Aryan. In part 1, Figueira examines the European Romanticmythographers' construction of theVedic Golden Age, Friedrich Max Muller's return to the Vedas, and Nietzsche's turn to the Laws of Manu to construct a past for Europeans. Part 2 focuses on the role of …
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Publication information:
Article title: Dorothy M. Figueira, Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity.
Contributors: Bhatia, Nandi - Author.
Journal title: The Comparatist.
Volume: 29.
Publication date: May 2005.
Page number: 159.
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