Michael Witzel                                                                  Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
1 Bow Street, 3rd fl., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA                          List of Publications  (update 2/2008)
phones (general) : x-1-617-495 3295, 617-496 8570 -- fax 496 8571-- direct line 496 2990  (also voice messages). 

President, ASLIP (1999-), IACM (2006-)
Indo-Eurasian_research group     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research
Comparative Mythology group    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compmyth
ASLIP's MTLR discussion list: MTLR@yahoogroups.com

    NEW FEATURES

13th Round Table on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia (Kyoto Session, RHIN, May 30-31, 2009)

3rd International Conference on Comparative Mythology of the International Association for Comparative Mythology (Tokyo, Kokugakuin University, May 23-24, 2009: 12th Round Table, Tokyo session)

(Earlier HARVARD ROUND TABLES)

The Origins of the World's Mythologies. Oxford University Press -- Fall 2009. (Publisher's announcement) (cover) (blurb)

Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Erster und zweiter Liederkreis. Aus dem vedischen Sanskrit übersetzt und herausgegeben von Michael Witzel und Toshifumi Goto unter Mitarbeit von Eijiro Doyama und Mislav Jezic.  Frankfurt: Verlag der Weltreligionen. 2007, pp. 1-889.
(First complete translation of the Rgveda into a western language since Geldner's of 1929/1951). cover contents1 contents2    amazon.de

Rig-Veda Vol. II (Rgveda III-V), Spring 2009 (M.Witzel, Toshifumi Goto, Salvatore Scarlata)

Hindutva View of History. Rewriting Textsbook in India and the United States  (with K. Visvesvaran, Nandini Majrekar, Dipta Bhog, and Uma Chakravarti). Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 10th Anniversary edition. Winter/Spring 2009, 101-11

Slaying the dragon across Eurasia. In: Bengtson, John D. (ed.) In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory. Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming.  Amsterdam/Philadeplphia: John Benjamin’s Publishing Company 2008: 263-286

Myths and Consequences. Review of Stefan Arvidsson, Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. (Chicago University Press 2006). Science, vol. 317, 28 September 2007, 1868-1869 (Manuscript Number: 1141619).  http://www. sciencemag.org
Summary: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5846/1868?ijkey=vNHCuWdIhTviU&keytype=ref&siteid=sci Full Text:  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5846/1868?ijkey=vNHCuWdIhTviU&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

Out of Africa: the Journey of the Oldest Tales of Humankind. In: Generalized Science of Humanity Series, Vol. I. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 2006: 21-65

Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social and Religious Change. In: Olivelle, P. (ed.) Between the Empires. Society in India between 300 BCE and 400 CE. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006: 457-499

Creation myths. In: T. Osada (ed.), Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), Kyoto, Japan  2006: 284-318

Memories of a Hindu Nepal: Accounts of a Personal Journey. Swadharma.  Harvard’s Hinduism Journal, I, May 2006:18-24 

Rama's Realm: Indocentric Rewritings of Early South Asian Archaeology and History.  In: Archaeological Fantasies. How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public,  ed. by G. G. Fagan.London/New York: Routledge 2006:203-232 --  Discussion by  Colin Renfrew

Indocentrism: Autochthonous visions of ancient India. In:  The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history / edited by Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton.  London  & New York : Routledge, 2005: 341-404

Vala and Iwato. The Myth of the Hidden Sun in India, Japan and beyond
EJVS12-1 (March 1, 2005), 1-69 pdf; additional pictures, tables, maps: pdf (big file!)

The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization
by  Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat, and Michael Witzel  EJVS 11-2  Dec. 13, 2005)
Discussion in SCIENCE MAGAZINE  306, Dec. 17., 2004, 2026-2029

Katha Âranyaka. Critical edition with a translation into German and an introduction.
Cambridge: Harvard Oriental Series 65. 2004  [pp. lxxix, XXVI, 220, with color facsimiles of the Kashmir bhûrja MS]

The Rgvedic Religious System and its Central Asian and Hindukush Antecedents
In: A. Griffiths & J.E.M. Houben (eds.). The Vedas: Texts, Language and Ritual. Groningen: Forsten  [Nov.] 2004: 581-636  (www.forsten.nl)

Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia.
Philadelphia: Sino-Platonic Papers 129,  Dec. 2003, [Aug.  2004]

Das Alte Indien [History of Old India]. München: C.H. Beck  [C.H. Beck Wissen in der Beck'schen Reihe] March 2003. (Euro 7.90) [Contents]

Comparison and Reconstruction: Language and Mythology. Mother Tongue VI, 2001, 45-62 pdf (comp.myth)

Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts. EJVS May 2001 pdf

Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages.Boston: Mother Tongue, extra number 1999 pdf

Early Sanskritization. Origins and development of the Kuru State. B. Kölver (ed.). Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. The state, the Law, and Administration in Classical India. München : R. Oldenbourg 1997 : 27-52 pdf (EJVS version); early summary, Kyoto 1989

Early Indian History: Linguistic and Textual Parameters. in: Language, Material Culture and ethnicity. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia, ed. G. Erdosy, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 1995, 85-125; --  Rgvedic history: poets, chieftains and politics,  loc.cit. 307-352 combined pdf (uncorrected)

New pdfs: see List of Publications:

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OTHER CURRENT FEATURES

* Project on Substrate Languages of South Asia (SARVA) in collaboration with F. Southworth and the Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), 2004-
-  Starting point: CDIAL's starred items (reconstructed OIA words not attested in texts)
-  SARVA utilities:  Turner's CDIAL and Burrow-Emeneau's  DEDR (searchable simultaneously); SARVA dictionary; discussion lists.

11th Round Table on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia (Cambridge May 8-9, 2008)

(Earlier HARVARD ROUND TABLES)

*  Project on Comparative Mythology (sponsored by: Asia Center, Harvard, 2003-6); description, results

International Association for Comparative Mythology 2006- (Cambridge, MA)

Founding Conference, Peking University, Beijing, May 10-13, 2006

The Deep History of Stories. (First) International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Edinburgh, Scotland.  August 28-30, 2007 (10th ESCA Round Table). Announcements; Program

Second International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein, Netherlands. August, 19-21, 2008 Program

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES and cultures of the Hindukush & Himalaya: KALASH and KUSUNDA

• Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies  (EJVS) (Editor)
• Harvard Oriental Series (HOS), (Editor)  published/distributed by Harvard University Press
Opera Minora, HOS sub-series: distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia MO (www.southasiabooks.com)
Descriptive list of HOS publications; Harvard University Press: contact HUP to order books

Recent publications: HOS vol. 62. Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the earliest times to the sixth century A.D., ed., tr., comm., by I. Mahadevan, 2003; vol. 63. Rgveda transl. by K.F. Geldner, reprint in one vol., 2003; vol. 65 Katha Âranyaka, ed. & tr. by M. Witzel 2004; Vol. 67. Sugatasaurabha transl. from Newari by T. Lewis and M. Tuladhar 2007; Excavations at Dumakhal (Nepal) by Th. Riccardi and M. Khanal (HOS-OM 5, 2007); A New Vedic Concordance, by M. Franceschini; Nepalese Shaman Texts, II, by Gregory Maskarinec 2008; Bhaviveka and his Buddhist Opponents, by D. Eckel; The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir, by L. McCrea; Rai Mythology by K. Ebert and M. Gaenzle; An early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature, by K. Schaeffer and L. van der Kuijp. 2009. Forthcoming: Srngaraprakasa II, etc.

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• ON LINE RGVEDA (Samhita text, of Aufrecht / van Nooten / Holland). HOS 50
  ON LINE  VEDIC CONCORDANCE, HOS 10  (M.Bloomfield and Marco Franceschini  © 2000)
  

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• Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, (Founding Ed.,1975); Editor: Th. Oberlies
• Indo-Iranian Journal,  CONTENTS; For details write to the editors-in-chief: Prof. H. Bakker or J. Silk; to the publisher: Brill, Leiden.  

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• Indian Philology and South Asian Studies (IPSAS), (Co-Ed.): Ed. by Albrecht Wezler & Michael Witzel. Berlin/New York (de Gruyter) 1996-.

*  Indian Studies 117:  Early History of South Asia  (Michael Witzel and Richard H. Meadow)
    Indian Studies 206:  Old Indian and Eurasian Creation Myths: Seminar
    Indian Studies 110:  History of South Asia to 1200 CE

*  ENLARGED (Mac) VERSION OF: VEDIC CONCORDANCE, HOS 10 (M. Bloomfield and Marco Franceschini  © 2005 (updated April 2005,  Feb. 2001);  PC and Mac version at Bologna. Published in HOS, 2008.

* Vedic Hinduism by S. Jamison & M. Witzel (1992) pdf  (General introduction to the Veda:  texts, myths, ritual,  religion; see same in html).
For a short version see ditto, Univ. of S. Carolina Press 2003 (mwbib.htm  no. 95)

*  Harappan Civilization & The Veda: Debate in the THE HINDU, OPEN PAGE  (Jan. 2002 Jan. 2004)

*  OPINION PAGES: OUTLOOK (2000-1) and FRONTLINE: Horseplay in Harappa; in HINDI; THE HINDU (2002/3)

*  Rückspiegel  -- PRATIBIMBA -- Rear View Mirror

* Coming soon: Looking back at the California History Schoolbook Affair, 2005-2009

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• Further Indological links

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