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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (105)

How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock (2008)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2008). How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 28(3), 533-557. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-030

This essay aims at a methodological interpretation of Sheldon Pollock's oeuvre from the perspective of comparative literary history. Part 1 focuses on his recent magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men. Part 2 compares the Sanskrit... Read More about How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock.

Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus (2008)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2008). Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus. In B. Grant, & L. Yalcin-Heckmann (Eds.), Caucasus paradigms : anthropologies, histories and the making of a world area (143-166). Lit Verlag. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1581214

This essay presents an ethnographic narrative of Suleiman Gumashvili, the poet-scholar of the village of Joqolo, in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge. Gumashvili is currently engaged in a project to demonstrate that Chechen is the most ancient language in the... Read More about Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus.

Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture (2007)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2007). Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 8(2), 271-306. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2007.0027

The ancient tradition of the abrek (bandit) was developed into a political institution during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century by Chechen and other Muslim peoples of the Caucasus as a strategy for dealing with the overwhe... Read More about Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture.