> [[arvidsson]] (author); [[wichmann]] (trans, from Swedish).*Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science*. Book. The University of Chicago Press, 2006. > [pdf](a/arvidsson2006.pdf) ## Publisher Description > Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, _Aryan Idols_ demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and used for, various ideologies.Stefan Arvidsson traces the evolution of the Aryan idea through the nineteenth century—from its roots in Bible-based classifications and William Jones’s discovery of commonalities among Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek to its use by scholars in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, folklore, comparative religion, and history. Along the way, Arvidsson maps out the changing ways in which Aryans were imagined and relates such shifts to social, historical, and political processes. Considering the developments of the twentieth century, Arvidsson focuses on the adoption of Indo-European scholarship (or pseudoscholarship) by the Nazis and by Fascist Catholics. A wide-ranging discussion of the intellectual history of the past two centuries, _Aryan Idols_ links the pervasive idea of the Indo-European people to major scientific, philosophical, and political developments of the times, while raising important questions about the nature of scholarship as well. ## Contents Contents List of Illustrations xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 1 From Noah's Sons to the Aryan Race: The Foundation Is Laid 000 2 A Place in the Sun: The Paradigm of Nature Mythology 000 3 Primitive Aryans: Research around the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 000 4 Order and Barbarianism: Aryan Religion in the Third Reich 000 5 Horsemen from the East: Alternatives to Nazi Research 000 Conclusion 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000 ## Format 354 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm ## Identifiers LC : 2005030550 ISBN : 9780226028606 ISBN : 0226028607 OCLC : (OCoLC)62172703 ## Reviews [[caldwell-p2007]] [[churton2010]] [[melia2008]]