New book: Indo-European ecologies

The second volume in the series Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture, established in connection with the LAMP project, has been published:

Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen (eds.). 2025. Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk – snakes and water. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. doi:10.16993/bcu

The book contains the following contributions:

1. Jenny Larsson: Introducing Indo-European ecologies

2. Riccardo Ginevra: Strangers from the waters – serpents, canids, horses and others: Indo-European conceptions of human ecology and the CENTRE–PERIPHERY spatial schema

3. Anders Kaliff: Cattle, cosmology and sacrifice: An Indo-European interpretation of burnt mounds

4. Peter Jackson Rova: Monsters and cattle: A topos and its mutations in Indo-European mythology

5. Birgit Olsen: Churning the ocean of milk – a historical-comparative study of the Indo-European root *menth₁/₂-

6. Terje Oestigaard: Farming, fertility and foaming water: Indo-European ritualizations of life-giving growth forces in Scandinavian agriculture

7. Anders Jørgensen: A tiny Indo-European ‘cow-suckler’? A new etymology for Breton buzhugenn, Middle Cornish vethygan and Gascon bousic, boudic ‘earthworm’

8. Jenny Larsson: The Baltic house snakes in an Indo-European context

9. Davide Ermacora: Afterword: The milk-drinking and milk-suckling snake revisited