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3 unusual facts about Georges Dumézil


Georges Dumézil

Such criticism of Dumézil has been emphatically disputed by Didier Eribon in his 1992 book Faut-il brûler Dumézil?

Bruce Lincoln especially has leveled accusations of fascism against him.

Sanzan period

Ethnologist Ōbayashi Taryō argued that the narrative on Sanzan recorded centuries later by Ryūkyū reflected the tripartite ideology, which the French scholar Georges Dumézil found in Proto-Indo-European mythology.


Ubykh phonology

A divergent form of Ubykh spoken by Osman Güngör, an inhabitant of Karacalar, was investigated by Georges Dumézil in the 1960s (Dumézil 1965:266–269).


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