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Foreword to The Past : A Cultural History of the Baltic People /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hungarian |
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New York, N.Y. :
Central European University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine derived contents note: PART ONE
- INTRODUCTION 1
- CHAPTER 1
- THE CONCEPT OF BALTIC STUDIES 3
- CHAPTER 2
- THE ORIGINS AND MEANING OF THE TERM 'BALTIC'. 6
- CHAPTER 3
- ENVIRONMENT 14
- CHAPIER 4
- AMBER AND THE AMBER ROUTE 23
- PART TWO
- THE BALTIC TRIBES AND PEOPLES 37
- CHAPTER I
- THE INDO-EUROPEAN URIIEIMATAND PROTO-LANGUAGE. 39
- 1.1. Difficulties in writing about prehistory 39
- 1.1.1. Archaeology 41
- 1.1.2. Physical anthropology 43
- 1.1,3, Language history 47
- 1.2. The Kurgan theory (M. Gimbutas) 57
- 1.3, The Asiatic Urheimat hypotheses 63
- 1.4. Language tree and diffusionism 66
- CHAPTER 2
- THE BALTIC URHEIMATAND PROTO-LANGUAGE 70
- 2.1, The question of Balto-Slavic unity 70
- 2.2. The Baltic proto-language 74
- 2.3. The archaic nature of the Baltic languages 77
- 2.4. The Baltic Urheimat 80
- CHAPThFR 3
- THE VENET(D) QUESTION. 85
- CHAPTER4
- THE FIRST REFERENCES TO THE BALTS .
- 4.1, The Budini 101
- 4.2. The Neuri 102
- 4.3. The Aestii or Aisti 104
- 4.4. The Velts 107
- 4.5. The Stavanoi 107
- 4.6. The Sudini 108
- 4.7. The Galindians and the Golyad's 108
- 4.8. The Boruski or Borusi 111
- CHAPERS
- THE BALTIC TRIBES 113
- 5.1. Power relations in the Baltic region: The Viking period 113
- 5.2. The Couronians 116
- 5.3. Power relations in the Baltic region: the Slavic, Lithuanian,
- and German periods 118
- 5.4, The conquest of Livonia 122
- 5.5. Drangnach Osten 126
- 5.6. The East Balts 128
- 5.6.1, The Latvians ; 128
- 5.6.2. The Leitis 132
- 5.6.3. The Lithuanians (Zemaitians and Aukataitians) I.138
- 5.6.4. The Zemgalians 142
- 5,6.5. The Selonians, 145
- 5.7. The West Balts 147
- 5.7.1. The Prussians 147
- 5.7.2. The latvingians 158
- CHAPTER 6
- THE BALTIC PEOPLES 164
- 6.1. The Prussians 164
- 6.2. The Latvians 167
- 6.2.1. Kurzeme 170
- 6.2.2. The Duchy beygnd the Daugava, . 170
- 6.2.3. Latgale 172
- 6.3. The Lithuanians 176
- 6.3.1. Lithuania Minor 192
- PART THREE
- BALTIC LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS 205
- CHAPTERI
- COMMON BALTIC : 207
- CHAPTER 2
- WEST BALTIC LANGUAGES : : 209
- 2.1. ThePrussianlanguage 209
- 2.2. The Jatvingian language 216
- AR 3
- THE COURONIAN LANGUAGE 2, 217
- CHAPTER 4
- EAST BALTIC LANGUAGES 219
- 4.1. The Latvian language, 219
- 4.2. The Latgalian language 224
- 4.3. The Lithuanian language 225
- PART FOUR
- BALTIC MYTHOLOGY 231
- CHAPTER I
- PREHISTORY, FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY 233
- CHAPMER 2
- HOW FAR BACK DOES BALTIC ANTIQUITY REACH? 253
- CHAPTER 3
- MYTHS AND SYSTEMS OF MYTHS 267
- CHAPTER 4
- THE THEORY OF SOCIAL FORMATION 271
- CHAPTER 5
- POLYDOXY, PROTOTHEISM, POLYTHEISM 275
- CHAPTER 6
- SHAMANISM 276
- CHAPTER 7
- BALTIC MYTHOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 278
- 7.1. Baltic prototheism 278
- 7.1.1. Deivas 279
- 7.1.2. Prknas (Prkons) 282
- 7.2. Baltic polydoxy 289
- 7.2.1. Interprtatio chrisliana 296
- 7.2.2. Interpretatio classica (Romana, Graeca) 304
- 7.3. Baltic 'polytheism' 307
- 7.3.1. The Prussian 'gods' of reliable sources 308
- 7.3.2. The Lithuanian 'gods' of reliable sources 309
- 7.3.3. The Prussian 'Pantheon' 312
- 7.3.4. The Lithuanian 'pantheon' 316
- CHAPTER 8S
- BALTIC CULTS 318
- 8.1. Idols 318
- 8.2. Sanctuaries 319
- 8.2.1. Romova 3 320
- 8.2.2. The sanctuary of Vilnius (The legends of Sventaragis and Gediminas) 321
- 8.3. Priests 326
- 8.3.1. Sicco 326
- 8.3.2. The tuliss and the ligash 327
- 83.3. The sovij (an addition to the Malalas Chronicle) 330
- 8.3.4. Krive 337
- 8.3.5. Kunigas 339
- 8.3.6. Zynys, waidelott, Wisten, macifTjs 340
- 3. =
- PART FIVE
- CONCLUSION
- OWN AND ALIEN IN HISTORY 343
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 357
- INDEX 405.