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Peter Jackson
Førsteamanuensis
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E-mail
peterj@sv.uit.no
Biografiske data
Born 1971. MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguisitcs at Uppsala University 1994. PhD in the History of Religions at Uppsala University 1999 with the thesis The Extended Voice. Instances of Myth in the Indo-European Corpus.
After a short sojourn as fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) in 1999 he was Alexander von Humboldt-fellow at the University of Augsburg and the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg between March 2000 and July 2001. He was junior fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. during the academic year 2002/2003 and a STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School during the academic year 2003/2004.
Forskningsinteresser
Peter Jackson specializes in Indo-European myth and poetics. He focuses on Vedic India, Ancient Iran, Ancient Greece, and pre-Christian Scandinavia. He is also interested in issues of a broader theoretical scope, such as the construction and interpretation of prehistoric ideational culture, the theory of myth, and the mechanisms of cultural transmission.
Publikasjoner
a) Monographs
The Extended Voice: Instances of Myth in the Indo-European Corpus, Diss. Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, 1999, 186 pp.
Verbis pingendis: Contributions to the Study of Ritual Speech and Mythopoeia, Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft (Vorträge und kleinere Schriften 72), 2002, 71 pp.
The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle, Dettelbach: Verlag J. H. Röll (forthcoming).
b) Articles and reviews
”Notes on Indo-European Ritual Phraseology with Special Regard to Vedic”, Orientalia Suecana XLIV, 1995, 133-139.
”The Codes of Inheritance: Notes on an Indo-European Palimpsest”, Journal of Indo-European Studies 24, 3&4, 1996, 305-321.
”Indoeuropeisk mytteori i ny dager” in Olof Sundqvist and Anna-Lydia Svalastog (eds), Myter och mytteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser, Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 1997, 121-129.
Review of Calver Watkin’s How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995), Svensk religionshistorisk årsskirft 4, 1997, 218-220.
”Tracks on the Road-Myth: Indo-European Religions Beyond Georges Dumézil’s moyen d’analyser”, in Tore Ahlbäck (ed.), Approaching Religion, Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 17, Stockholm 1999, 99-108.
”Den viskande Hermes: Tankar kring skriftbegreppets religionshistoriska implikationer”, Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift 8, 1999, 217-241.
(With Torsten Blomkvist) ”Alt ir baugum bundit: Skaldic Poetry on Gotland in a pan-Germanic and Indo-European perspective”, Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 114, 1999, 17-29.
”A Graeco-Avestan Parallell Regarding the Adornment of the Sky with Stars”, Indogermanische Forschungen 106, 2001, 122-125.
”Der Name des Donners: Zum sprach- und relgionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund zweier altskandinavischer Theonyme” in Michael Stausberg et al. (eds), Kontinuitäten und Brüche. Festschrift für Anders Hultgård, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2001, 436-441.
”Light from Distant Asterisks: Towards a Description of the Indo-European Religious Heritage”, Numen, 49, 2001, 61-102.
(With Norbert Oettinger) ”Traitana und Thraeta(o)na: Reste urindoiranischer Heldenlegenden”, Indo-Iranian Journal, 45 (3), 2002, 221-229.
”Allusions to the Vala-myth in Yasna 44”, Fs Utas/Gren-Eklund, Orientalia Suecana, LI-LII, 2002-2003, 221-233.
”Clever Etchings: Prehistoric Language, Religious Language, and Prehistoric Religions”, contribution to the on-line symposium ”The Criteria of Symbolicity” arranged by Paul Bouissac. Find the text at: www.semioticon.com/virtuals/symbolicity/clever.html
”Retracing the Path: Gesture, Memory, and the Exegesis of Tradition”, History of Religions, 45:1, 2005, 1-28.
”Törnrosa och myten: Vetenskapshistoriska ledtrådar i Kinder- und Hausmärchen”, Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2005, 29-42
”Thorsmythen”, Heinrich Beck et al. (eds), Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 30, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005, 490-498.
”The Poetics of Myth in Pindar’s Olympian 9,47-49”, in Georges Pinault and Daniel Petit(eds.), ”La langue poétique indo-européenne”, Leuven/Paris: Peeters, 2006, 125-132.
”Pótnia Aúôs: The Greek Dawn-goddess and her Antecedent”, Glotta: Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, LXXXI, 2006.
”The Literal and Metaphorical Inscription of Gesture in Religious Discourse”, in Paul Bouissac (ed.), Gestures, Rituals and Memory (special issue of Gesture 6:2), 2006, 213-220.
”Entropy and Redundancy in Culture”, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 18:3, 2006, 219-231
”Die Wanen”, in Heinrich Beck et al.(eds), Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming).
”Linguistics, Poetics, and Mythology: Is there Still Room for Indo-Europeans in the Academic Study of Religion?”, to appear in Gojko Barjamovic, Irene Elmerot, Adam Hyllested, Benedicte Nielsen, and Bjørn Okholm Skaarup (eds), Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples – A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective, Budapest: Archaeolingua Foundation (forthcoming).
c) Translations
Swedish translation of Diana L. Eck’s Darsan: Seeing the divine image in India (1985). Swedish title: Darsan: Det gudomliga skådandet: En introduktion till hinduisk ikonografi, Nora: Nya Doxa, 1996, 91 pp.
Swedish translation of Aleida Assmann’s Zeit und Tradition: Kulturelle Strategien der Dauer (1999) (with an introductory essay co-written with Johan Redin). Swedish title: Tid och tradition: Varaktighetens kulturella strategier, Nora: Nya Doxa, 2004, 216 pp.
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