{"id":1992,"date":"2025-08-25T14:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:14:40","slug":"book-alert-indo-european-ecologies-cattle-and-milksnakes-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/book-alert-indo-european-ecologies-cattle-and-milksnakes-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Book alert! Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk\u2014snakes and water."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JennyLarsson-Forbattrad-NR-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1996\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JennyLarsson-Forbattrad-NR-web.jpg 450w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JennyLarsson-Forbattrad-NR-web-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1993\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png 350w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>This is the second volume in the series\u00a0<em>Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture<\/em>\u00a0(open access). Jenny Larsson, professor in Baltic languages, with a primary interest in the history of languages, is one of the co-editors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This volume brings together scholars from different fields, exploring how early Indo-European communities understood and mythologised their natural and social environments. From sacred cattle and milk rituals to the chthonic symbolism of serpents and the mythological periphery of water, this interdisciplinary volume uncovers deep-rooted ecological imaginaries embedded in language, archaeology, and comparative mythology. With contributions spanning from the Indo-Iranian plains to the Baltic forests, the book reveals how beliefs about animals, agriculture and the household shaped Indo-European worldviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/stockholmuniversitypress.se\/books\/e\/10.16993\/bcu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go to SU Press<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second volume in the series\u00a0Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture\u00a0(open access). 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