Dumézil’s Aryens in 1941
In his reply to Arnaldo Momigliano (1985), Georges Dumézil wrote that he had never used the term Aryens zu designate the Indo-Europeans, but unly to refer to the Indians and Iranians. This is not perfectly correct, because in three different texts of the year 1941 the French scholar stated that les...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft |
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2012
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| Summary: | In his reply to Arnaldo Momigliano (1985), Georges Dumézil wrote that he had never used the term Aryens zu designate the Indo-Europeans, but unly to refer to the Indians and Iranians. This is not perfectly correct, because in three different texts of the year 1941 the French scholar stated that les Indo-Européens were also called les Aryens, adding, in one of these texts, that they belonged to the white race and most often to the Nordic type. This may be explained as a survival strategy rather than as a political choice, because in 1941 Dumézil hat lost his position in the Ecole Pratique as a result of Vichy's anti-Masonic persecution, and was striving to regain it. Dumézil was never a Nazi sympathiser and always avoided any racist or anti-Semitic stance; his research was influenced by the ideology of Charles Maurras, and in particular by Maurras's idea that Memory was the true starting point of Law and Order. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/0029.207 |