http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/ Indo-Eurasian_research Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:04:41 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13305 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13305 A List member has already forwarded Rodo a copy of the article he needs. If anyone else wants a copy (I'm reading it too), write me off-List. Steve Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:41 GMT rodo pfister http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13304 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13304 [Mod. Note: if link below is broken, try: http://tinyurl.com/ycqopg4 - please respond to rodo off-list - BF] Dear list members Does anyone have access to the Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:33:01 GMT traczek1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13303 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13303 This question reminds me of two sections in the Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun: Chapter VI, sections 34 and 35. The first discusses information overload while the Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:07:51 GMT Michel Tavir http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13302 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13302 I'm not sure that keeping archives, offhand, can be equated with information overload. Archives, libraries included, are generated gradually and get stored on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:58 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13301 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13301 This new Bryn Mawr review covers a book that has a 1960's feel to it ("Structuralism" in 2009?) -- but the neo-Dumezilians on the List might like it. (NB that Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:22:32 GMT Trudy Kawami http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13300 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13300 Just to push things back a bit farther, what about the great Mesopotamian (& related regions) unending hoard of tablets with prices, receipts, king-lists, Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:31:51 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13299 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13299 Dear James, ... Your question requires a book! And the answer will be different for different times, stages in the growth of literate and oral technologies Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:05:50 GMT Naresh Cuntoor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13298 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13298 James, Interesting question. Here are a couple of examples from the ancient Indians: 1. Rig Vedic Naasadiiya sukta where the sages throw up their hands saying Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:45:17 GMT Rick Baude http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13297 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13297 Fascinating questions. Though I'm not worried about information overload, I'm more interested in information retrieval and perhaps just as importantly Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:32:05 GMT James Ward http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13296 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13296 While the list is quiet, I would like to pose a question, or series of related questions, not directly related to my active research. I was idly looking at an Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:01 GMT Trudy Kawami http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13295 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13295 Thanks, Chris. The reference to Seistan and Baluchistan as "sites" on the Iranian Plateau certainly set off numerous alarm bells in my mind. The publication of Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:53 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13294 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13294 Dear List, I just received an urgent request from a contact at a NGO who wants to produce some materials in Kannada using OS-X (I'm not sure which version of Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:17 GMT atman@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13293 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13293 Dude ... that burning bush was a weed, and Moses bogarted it ... John Robert Gardner Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:50:08 GMT Dan Lusthaus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13292 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13292 Hi Steve, ... For goodness sakes! Stop calling me names! ... Don't go by my standards. I would have at least two tracks -- one for only the most meticuluous Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:42 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13291 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13291 Dear Dan, You write about this paper: Nassim Amzallag, "Yahweh, the Canaanite God of Metallurgy," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 2009; 33(4);