TY - JOUR
AU - Dupree, Louis
AB -  Peoples and Languages of the Caucasus. Preface by JOHN LOTZ.New York: Language and Communications Research Center, Columbia University, 1955. vi, 67 pp., 1 map. n.p. Rm*ewed by WILLIAM ELMENDORF, W. University of Washington This little manual presents basic reference data on 50 peoples of the Caucasus, giving for each group nomenclature, population numbers, location, linguistic aaiation, dialect or other subdivisions, and brief indications of traditional economy and religion. Populations are grouped by linguistic stock as Caucasian (3 branches), Indo-European (Iranian, Armenian), Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian), and Semitic (Aramaic). A “geneticlinguistic survey” gives a classification by stock, branch, group and language. All ethnic and linguistic names are indexed. The terminal map summarizes strikingly the ethnic complexity of the area. Distinctive shading of the linguistic stocks and branches would have given visual grasp of this potpourri and brought out certain geographic and historical-linguistic points. An ancient tripartite Caucasian stock surrounds the range, with its most diversified branch to the northeast. Its area is broken in the center by an ancient intrusive group, the Iranian Ossetes, and in the east by more recently intrusive Turkic peoples. Russian expansion from the north has broken up the Circassian area in the northwest, largely since 
TI - ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Persian Beliefs and Customs. Henri Massé. Translated by Charles A. Messner
JF - American Anthropologist
DO - 10.1525/aa.1957.59.2.02a00310
DA - 1957-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/ethnology-and-ethnography-persian-beliefs-and-customs-henri-mass-Nn0PK0GLwR
SP - 364
VL - 59
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -