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European Picture of Ancient India

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LUŽNÝ Dušan

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Orientalia Antiqua Nova
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Faculty of Arts

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Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords orientalism; India;
Description This paper is going to devote itself to certain aspects of modern Western construction of the picture of ancient India. Mechaninisms of construction: a) ontologizing of binary value opposition; b) homogenozation (brahmanization, sanskrtization, colonial orientalism); c) textualism. Content of the construction: a) Aryan myth; b) castes.
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