Power, Gender, and Mobility

Power, Gender, and Mobility is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and society: combining perspectives from linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and history of religion, it seeks to explore the dynamics of power, gender, and mobility – three concepts that are essential for a profound understanding of the historically attested Indo-European–speaking societies and of the prehistoric society reflected by Proto-Indo-European.The book offers a comprehensive analysis of topics ranging from gender roles and female onomastics to power structures and the role of poets as social brokers, from Indo-European legal language and initiation rites to matrimonial practices and age-based social hierarchies. It provides fresh interpretations and new approaches to known material as well as novel explorations and unprecedented analyses of new data.Contributors: Jan N. Bremmer, José Luis García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Stefan Höfler, Rune Iversen, Peter Jackson Rova, Michael Janda, Kim McCone, Mikkel Nørtoft, Birgit Anette Olsen, Ulla Remmer, Jil Schermutzki, and Michael Weiss.

Riccardo Ginevra is Ricercatore of Historical and General Linguistics at the Department of Classical Philology, Papyrology and Historical Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He has formerly been a Fellow (2019–2021) and an Associate (2021–2023) at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2020–2021) at the University of Copenhagen. His research mainly deals with topics of Indo-European formulaicity and mythology, with a special focus on the Germanic, Greek, and Indic traditions. Stefan Höfler is a lecturer in Indo-European Studies at the University of Vienna and postdoc fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Vienna in 2017 and has since been a lecturer at Harvard University (2017–2018) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen (2019–2021). His research focuses on Indo-European nominal morphology and morphosyntax. Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and previously leader of the five-year University of Copenhagen excellence programme Roots of Europe (20082013). She has published in particular about the Classical Armenian language and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages. Janus Bahs Jacquet holds a BA in Chinese and an MA in Indo-European Studies specialising in Celtic languages, both from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2015 he has worked as an editor with Museum Tusculanum Press.