PUBLICATIONS
2(c)
For contextualisation
see autobiographical sketch: From
mountains to mythologies. Ethnos 68 (2003) :
271-284. Abbreviations. JRAI = Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute. JASO = Journal of the
Anthropological Society of
Articles
1987 The ideology of the Indo-Europeans: Dumézil's
theory and the idea of a fourth function. Int. J.
Moral and Social Studies 2(1): 23-39.
1991 Some gods of pre-Islamic
1993 Arjuna and Odysseus: a comparative approach.
SALG Newsletter 40:39-43.
1993 Debating Dumézil: recent studies in comparative mythology. JASO
24(2): 119-131.
1994 Primitive
Classification: the argument and its validity. Pp. 40-65 in W S F Pickering and H Martins (eds) Debating Durkheim.
1995 Why did Odysseus become a horse? JASO
26(2): 143-154.
1996a The hero’s five
relationships: a Proto-Indo-European story.
Pp. 1-20 in J Leslie (ed) Myth and Myth-making: continuous evolution in Indian tradition.
1996b
1996c Homer’s simile, Vyasa’s story. Journal
of Mediterranean Studies 6 (2): 206-11.
1998a The Indo-European prehistory of yoga. International
journal of Hindu studies 2: 1-20.
1998b The category of
substance: a Maussian theme revisited.
Pp. 175-191 in W James and N J Allen (eds.) Marcel Mauss: a centenary tribute.
1998c Varnas, colours and functions: expanding
Dumézil’s schema. Z. für Religionswissenschaft 6: 163-177.
1998d
[2001] Cúchulainn in the light of the Mahâbhârata and the Odyssey. Pp. 51-6 in E Lyle (ed)
Cosmos 14 (1).
1999a Hinduism as Indo-European: cultural comparativism
and political sensitivities. Pp.
19-32 in Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav M Deshpande (eds.) Aryan and non-aryan in
1999b Arjuna and the second function: a Dumézilian
crux. J. Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 9(3): 403-418.
1999c Hinduism, structuralism and Dumézil. Pp. 241-260 in E C Polomé (ed)
Miscellanea Indo-Europea. [JI-ES
Monograph No. 33.]
1999d Les crocodiles qui
se transforment en nymphes. Ollodagos
13: 151-167.
2000a
2000b Cúchulainn’s women and some Indo-European
comparisons. Emania 18: 57-64.
2000c Scripture and epic: a comparativist looks
at the biography of the Buddha. Visvabharati
Quarterly 9: 51-62.
2000d Imra, pentads and catastrophes. Ollodagos 14: 278-308.
2000e Reflections
on Mauss and classification; Magic, religion and Indo-European ideology. Chapters 6 and 7 in N.J. Allen Categories and classifications: Maussian reflections
on the social.
2001a Athena and Durga: warrior goddesses in Greek
and Sanskrit epic. Pp. 367-382
in
2002a The stockmen and
the disciples. J. Indo-European
Studies 30: 27-40.
2002b Pénélope et Draupadî:
la validité de la comparaison. Pp. 305-312 in A Hurst and F Létoublon
(eds) La
mythologie et l’Odyssée. Hommage
à Gabriel Germain.
2002c Mahābhārata and Iliad: a common
origin? Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute 83: 165-177.
2003 The Indra-Tullus comparison. In B Drinka & J Salmons (eds) Indo-European Language and Culture: Essays in Memory
of Edgar C. Polomé, part I. General Linguistics 40: 148-171.
2004 Dyaus and Bhīṣma, Zeus and Sarpedon:
towards a history of the Indo-European sky god. Gaia:
Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce archaïque 8: 29-36.
2005a Bhīṣma and Hesiod’s Succession
Myth. Int. J. of Hindu Studies 8/1-3 (2004): 57-79.
2005b
The
articulation of time: some Indo-European comparisons. Cosmos
17/2 (for 2001): 163-178.
2005c Romulus et Bhishma:
structures entrecroisées. Anthropologie et sociétés
29/2: 21-44.
2005d Asceticism
in some Indo-European traditions. Studia Indo-Europæa 2 (2002-5): 37-51.
2005e Thomas
McEvilley: the missing dimension. Int.
J. of Hindu Studies 9/1-3: 59-75
2006a Indo-European epics and comparative method: pentadic structures in Homer and the Mahābhārata.
Pp.243-252 in T. Osada
(ed) Proceedings of the Pre-symposium of RIHN and the 7th ESCA
Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable,
2006b The Buddhist Wheel of Existence and two
Greek comparisons. In Marco V. García Quintela, Francisco J. González
García & Felipe Criado
Boado (eds) Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Material
Culture: 5th International Colloquium
of Anthropology of the
Indo-European World and Comparative Mythology, pp. 219-228.
Budapest: Archaeolingua.
2007a The close and
the distant: a long-term perspective. In G. Pfeffer (ed.) Periphery and Centre: Studies in Orissan History, Religion and Anthropology, pp. 273-290.
2007b The shield of Achilles and Indo-European tradition. Cuadernos de filología
clásica: Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
17: 33-44.
2007c Bhīsma as matchmaker. In
2007d Śiva and Indo-European
ideology: one line of thought. In Int. J
of Hindu Studies 11/2: 191-207.
2007e Dumont e Dumézil: una comparazione e una combinazione. Quaderni di Teoria sociale 7: 11-29.
2007f The Pāṇḍavas’
five journeys and the structure of the Mahābhārata. Religions of
2007g The Heimdall-Dyu comparison revisited. J. Indo-European Studies 35: 233-247.
Selected Reviews and Comments
1987 Review of Myth, cosmos and society by B Lincoln. Man
22: 375-6.``
1988 Review of Comparative mythology by J Puhvel.
Man 23: 587.
1998 Review of Le mytho-cycle héroïque dans l’aire indo-européenne by C Vielle.
JRAS 8(1): 104-6.
1999 Review of The Sanskrit epics by J Brockington.
JRAS 9 (3): 445-6.
2000 Review of How to kill a dragon by C Watkins.
JRAI 6 (1):159-160.
2000
Comment: Miller on Dumézil: the current state of play.
Religion 30: 293-4.
2000 Review of Balarâma im Mahābhārata by A Bigger. JRAS
10(3): 411-13.
2001 Review of Composing a tradition, eds M Brockington
and P Schreiner. JRAS 11(2): 290-2.
2001 ‘Indoeuropäische Religionen’. Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,
4th ed, 4: 110-1.
2003 Review of Imagining Karma: Ethical
Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist and Greek Rebirth by
G Obeyesekere. H-Net: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4601070867937
2007 Review
of Indo-European poetry and myth by M.West. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.10.53.
in press ‘Indo-European
traditions’. RoutledgeCurzon
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, eds. Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael
York.