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Theorizing myth: narrative, ideology, and scholarship

Lincoln, Bruce, Theorizing myth: narrative, ideology, and scholarship, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Death, war, and sacrifice: studies in ideology & practice

Lincoln, Bruce, Death, war, and sacrifice: studies in ideology & practice, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991.  

Contents: Foreword, by Wendy Doniger -- Preface -- I. Indo-European religions: an introduction -- Part one: Death and funerary geography in Indo-European myth -- 2. On the imagery of Paradise -- 3. The lord of the dead -- 4. Waters of memory, waters of forgetfulness -- 5. The ferryman of the dead -- 6. Mithra(s) as sun as savior -- 7. The hellhound -- 8. The house of clay -- 9. The two paths -- Part two: War, sacrifice, and the science of the body -- 10. Homeric Iyssa: “wolfish rage” -- 11. War and warriors: an overview -- 12. Warriors and non-herdsmen: a response to Mary Boyce -- 13. Sacrificial ideology and Indo-European society -- 14. The druids and human sacrifice -- 15. On the Scythian royal burials -- 16. Debreasting, disarming, beheading: some sacrificial practices of the Scyths and Amazons -- 17. Physiological speculation and social patterning in a Pahlavi text -- 18. Embryological speculation and gender politics in a Pahlavi text -- Part three: Polemic pieces -- 19. Shaping the past and the future -- 20. Kings, rebels, and the left hand -- 21. Myth andhistory in the study of myth: an obscure text of Georges Dumézil, its context and subtext -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes .

Contents: Foreword, by Wendy Doniger -- Preface -- I. Indo-European religions: an introduction -- Part one: Death and funerary geography in Indo-European myth -- 2. On the imagery of Paradise -- 3. The lord of the dead -- 4. Waters of memory, waters of forgetfulness -- 5. The ferryman of the dead -- 6. Mithra(s) as sun as savior -- 7. The hellhound -- 8. The house of clay -- 9. The two paths -- Part two: War, sacrifice, and the science of the body -- 10. Homeric Iyssa: “wolfish rage” -- 11. War and warriors: an overview -- 12. Warriors and non-herdsmen: a response to Mary Boyce -- 13. Sacrificial ideology and Indo-European society -- 14. The druids and human sacrifice -- 15. On the Scythian royal burials -- 16. Debreasting, disarming, beheading: some sacrificial practices of the Scyths and Amazons -- 17. Physiological speculation and social patterning in a Pahlavi text -- 18. Embryological speculation and gender politics in a Pahlavi text -- Part three: Polemic pieces -- 19. Shaping the past and the future -- 20. Kings, rebels, and the left hand -- 21. Myth andhistory in the study of myth: an obscure text of Georges Dumézil, its context and subtext -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes .

Myth, cosmos, and society: Indo-European themes of creation and destruction

Lincoln, Bruce, Myth, cosmos, and society: Indo-European themes of creation and destruction, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

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The druids and human sacrifice

Lincoln, Bruce, “The druids and human sacrifice”, in: Mohammad Ali Jazayery, and Werner Winter (eds), Languages and cultures: studies in honor of Edgar C. Polomé, 36, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: De Gruyter Mouton, 1988. 381–396.