Nick Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4009-186X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Growth, maturation, and overuse injuries in dance and aesthetic sports
Plato's Republic and the Indo-European Pentadic Ideology
Similarities between ancient Greek philosophy and Indian philosophy have long been recognized and are usually ascribed to East-West contact. However, when similarities are recognized between Greek and Indian poetic diction or, more generally, between the myths and the poetry of the two cultures, they are often ascribed to Indo-European common origin; and one asks whether the same explanation could apply in philosophy. The two types of explanation…
Syndicalisme international
Nick Allen est un syndicaliste américain, permanent international du grand syndicat des services nord-américain, le SEIU ( Service Employees International Union ). Dans ce texte, il propose de repenser la solidarité des travailleur.ses et l'action face aux multinationales. Il situe au cœur de sa réflexion l'action syndicale internationale sur les questions de migration, des chaînes de valeur et de la finance
Vedic Sacrifice and the Pentadic Theory of Indo-European Ideology
If the Sanskrit language derives from the unattested but reconstructable proto-Indo-European language, ideas expressed in Sanskrit might derive from a reconstructable proto-Indo-European ideology. In fact, a body of comparative work on material from various regions of the ancient Indo-European-speaking world suggests that such a proto-ideology once existed, and that it survived long enough to leave significant traces in the historical sources. Tr…
Heroes and Pentads
Students of the narrative content of Greek epic usually ignore the hypothesis that it shares a common origin with the Sanskrit epic, and even Georges Dumézil, the best known Indo-European cultural comparativist of the last century, emphasized the contrast between the two traditions. However, since Dumézil's death, it has been argued that his ‘trifunctional’ theory of Indo-European ideology needs to be subsumed within a pentadic framework. This fr…
Books Reviews
The Pāndavas’ Five Journeys and the Structure of the Mahābhārata
A number of five-element structures occurring in the Mahabharata can be interpreted as expressing an early Indo European pentadic ideology. But in the main plot of the epic, five journeys, each made by one or more Pandavas, can also be viewed as forming a structure: the initial exile; Arjuna’s visit to the four quarters; the major Pandava exile (including the Great War); Arjuna’s journey during the horse sacrifice; and the Pandavas’ final journey…
From mountains to mythologies
Miller on Dumézil
Varnas, colours, and functions
The standard Dumezilian view correlates the three functions in Indo-European ideology with the colours white, red and dark (green, blue or black). The theory that the ideology was pentadic, not triadic, prompts a reconsideration, based on the four varnas of Hindu social ideology, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelations, and the four disguises used by Cliges in an Arthurian romance. It is concluded that black correlated with the bottom …
Early Irish and Welsh kinship
The Broken World of Sacrifice
The Dynamics of Polyandry
Tamang Ritual Texts. 1, Preliminary Studies in the Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal
Photo Essay
Les Gurungs
The Broken World of Sacrifice
Heroes and Pentads
Students of the narrative content of Greek epic usually ignore the hypothesis that it shares a common origin with the Sanskrit epic, and even Georges Dumézil, the best known Indo-European cultural comparativist of the last century, emphasized the contrast between the two traditions. However, since Dumézil's death, it has been argued that his ‘trifunctional’ theory of Indo-European ideology needs to be subsumed within a pentadic framework. This fr…
From mountains to mythologies
Varnas, colours, and functions
The standard Dumezilian view correlates the three functions in Indo-European ideology with the colours white, red and dark (green, blue or black). The theory that the ideology was pentadic, not triadic, prompts a reconsideration, based on the four varnas of Hindu social ideology, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelations, and the four disguises used by Cliges in an Arthurian romance. It is concluded that black correlated with the bottom …
Les Gurungs
Les Gurungs
Photo Essay
Tamang Ritual Texts. 1, Preliminary Studies in the Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal
The Dynamics of Polyandry
The Broken World of Sacrifice
Early Irish and Welsh kinship
Varnas, colours, and functions
The standard Dumezilian view correlates the three functions in Indo-European ideology with the colours white, red and dark (green, blue or black). The theory that the ideology was pentadic, not triadic, prompts a reconsideration, based on the four varnas of Hindu social ideology, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelations, and the four disguises used by Cliges in an Arthurian romance. It is concluded that black correlated with the bottom …
Miller on Dumézil
From mountains to mythologies
The Pāndavas’ Five Journeys and the Structure of the Mahābhārata
A number of five-element structures occurring in the Mahabharata can be interpreted as expressing an early Indo European pentadic ideology. But in the main plot of the epic, five journeys, each made by one or more Pandavas, can also be viewed as forming a structure: the initial exile; Arjuna’s visit to the four quarters; the major Pandava exile (including the Great War); Arjuna’s journey during the horse sacrifice; and the Pandavas’ final journey…
Books Reviews
Heroes and Pentads
Students of the narrative content of Greek epic usually ignore the hypothesis that it shares a common origin with the Sanskrit epic, and even Georges Dumézil, the best known Indo-European cultural comparativist of the last century, emphasized the contrast between the two traditions. However, since Dumézil's death, it has been argued that his ‘trifunctional’ theory of Indo-European ideology needs to be subsumed within a pentadic framework. This fr…
Vedic Sacrifice and the Pentadic Theory of Indo-European Ideology
If the Sanskrit language derives from the unattested but reconstructable proto-Indo-European language, ideas expressed in Sanskrit might derive from a reconstructable proto-Indo-European ideology. In fact, a body of comparative work on material from various regions of the ancient Indo-European-speaking world suggests that such a proto-ideology once existed, and that it survived long enough to leave significant traces in the historical sources. Tr…
Syndicalisme international
Nick Allen est un syndicaliste américain, permanent international du grand syndicat des services nord-américain, le SEIU ( Service Employees International Union ). Dans ce texte, il propose de repenser la solidarité des travailleur.ses et l'action face aux multinationales. Il situe au cœur de sa réflexion l'action syndicale internationale sur les questions de migration, des chaînes de valeur et de la finance
Plato's Republic and the Indo-European Pentadic Ideology
Similarities between ancient Greek philosophy and Indian philosophy have long been recognized and are usually ascribed to East-West contact. However, when similarities are recognized between Greek and Indian poetic diction or, more generally, between the myths and the poetry of the two cultures, they are often ascribed to Indo-European common origin; and one asks whether the same explanation could apply in philosophy. The two types of explanation…
Growth, maturation, and overuse injuries in dance and aesthetic sports
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