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Science 28 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5846, pp. 1868 - 1869
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141619
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Myths and Consequences

Michael Witzel

Aryan Idols
Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science
by Stefan Arvidsson
Translated from the Swedish (1) by Sonia Wichmann. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 366 pp. $55, £35. ISBN 9780226028606.
Examining two centuries of scholarship on Indo-European religion and mythology, Arvidsson explores the effects of the idea of an ancient, unified lineage.
The reviewer is at the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: witzel{at}fas.harvard.edu

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