{"title":"Émile Benveniste","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÉmile Benveniste\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers profound insights into language, culture, and society through a scholarly lens. His works explore the deep structures of Indo-European languages, illuminating how linguistic concepts shape historical and social identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for students and enthusiasts of linguistics and anthropology, Benveniste's writings provide a rich foundation for understanding the intricate relationship between language and civilisation. His books are a valuable resource for those engaged in \u003cem\u003eeducation and reference\u003c\/em\u003e within the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dictionary-of-indoeuropean-concepts-and-society-by-emile-benveniste-9780986132599","title":"Dictionary of Indo–European Concepts and Society","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1969, Émile Benveniste's \u003cem\u003eVocabulaire\u003c\/em\u003e—here with a new introduction by Giorgio Agamben—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive and comparative history of words with analyses of their underlying neglected genealogies and structures of signification—and this via a masterful journey through Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, Latin, and Greek languages—Benveniste's dictionary is a must-read for anthropologists, linguists, literary theorists, classicists, and philosophers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book has famously inspired a wealth of thinkers, including Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Agamben, François Jullien, and many others. In this new volume, Benveniste's masterpiece on the study of language and society finds new life for a new generation of scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs political fictions continue to separate and reify differences between European, Middle Eastern, and South Asian societies, Benveniste reminds us just how historically deep their interconnections are and that understanding the way our institutions are evoked through the words that describe them is more necessary than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424043155692,"sku":"9780986132599","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780986132599.jpg?v=1774769348"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/emile-benveniste.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}