Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste\'s Vocabulaire --here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society --has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship.
A comprehensive and comparative history of words with analyses of their underlying neglected genealogies and structures of signific.
Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste\'s Vocabulaire --here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society --has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship