About

Stephanie W. Jamison is a Professor specializing in Asian Religions and Indo-Iranian Literatures. Her academic focus includes Asian Religions, and her research encompasses Indo-Iranian Literatures, contributing to the understanding of these fields through her scholarly work. As a faculty member at UCLA's Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, she is involved in teaching and research related to these areas, supporting the department's mission to explore Asian languages, cultures, and histories.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• History
• Biology
• Religious studies
• Archaeology
• Philosophy
• Law
• Ancient history

Selected publications

• Vedic evidence for the verbal-governing dāti-vāra- ‘type’

  Indo-European Linguistics · 2024-02-22

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  Abstract For more than a century, a verbal-governing compound type has featured prominently in Indo-Europeanist discourse on compounding, a type exemplified by Vedic dā́ti-vāra- ‘granting wishes’, with a - ti -stem first member having a transitive relationship to the nominal second member. However, a critical reexamination of the Vedic evidence for this type reveals that almost none of the standard, regularly repeated examples actually mean what it is claimed they mean. The existence of this “type” is therefore seriously called into question and should not be reconstructed for Indo-European on the basis of the Vedic data.

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• Mirror Images and Cross(dress)ing

  2023-05-03

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  The Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus and the Virāṭa Parvan of the Mahābhārata contain similar tales in which a powerful male figure (the god Odin, the warrior Arjuna) comes to a strange court disguised as a female and is given intimate access to the king’s daughter. Though superficially very different, both tales also involve mandated exile of the male figure, loss (and regaining) of kingship, and acts of shocking violence facilitated by cross-dressing. The article explores the similarities of these two narrative complexes—and the limits of those similarities—and speculates on the role of cross-dressing in Indo-European warrior ideology.

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• Another, Unrecognized, cvi Construction in the Rigveda, with Cautionary Remarks on the Supposed Origin of the Construction

  2023-02-13

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• Preface

  Columbia University Press eBooks · 2023

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• <b>Slaje</b>, <b>Walter</b> <b>:</b> <i>Vájra</i>. Zur Schleuderwaffe im Rigveda. Halle/ Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg 2022. 110 S., 27 Abb. 8° = Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis 21. Hardbd. € 69,00. ISBN: 978-3-86977-253-0.

  Orientalistische Literaturzeitung · 2023-12-02

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  Article Slaje, Walter: Vájra. Zur Schleuderwaffe im Rigveda. Halle/ Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg 2022. 110 S., 27 Abb. 8° = Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis 21. Hardbd. € 69,00. ISBN: 978-3-86977-253-0. was published on December 2, 2023 in the journal Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (volume 118, issue 4-5).

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• For the Sake of the Vedas: The Anglo-German Life of Friedrich Rosen 1805–1837. By Rosane Rocher, with Agnes Stache-Weiske

  Journal of the American Oriental Society · 2022-09-30

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  &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; For the Sake of the Vedas: The Anglo-German Life of Friedrich Rosen 1805–1837. By Rosane Rocher, with Agnes Stache-Weiske. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Pp. xx + 396.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

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• Zur Didaktik mittelindischer Sprachen. By Klaus Mylius

  Journal of the American Oriental Society · 2021-09-19 · 1 citations

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  Zur Didaktik mittelindischer Sprachen. By Klaus Mylius. Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. 23. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. 100. €24. In the same series, with the same author and publisher:Lehrbuch der Ardhamāgadhī. . . ., vol. 24. . . ., 2014. Pp. 110. €29.Māhārāṣṭrī: Grammatischer Abriss und Wörterbuch. . . ., vol. 25. . . ., 2016. Pp. 131. €29.90. Śaurasenī: Grammatik und Glossar. . . ., vol. 27. . . ., 2018. Pp. 89. €29.90.Māgadhī: Grammatik, Textproben und Glossar. . . ., vol. 29. . . ., 2019. Pp. 74. €29.

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• Kleine Schriften. By Eva Tichy, edited by Axel Metzger

  Journal of the American Oriental Society · 2021-08-27

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  Kleine Schriften. By Eva Tichy, edited by Axel Metzger. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2018. Pp. xviii + 698. €98.

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• Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization. By Asko Parpola

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  • Ancient history
  • Religious studies
  • History

  &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization. By Asko Parpola. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 363. $105 (cloth); $38.95 (paper).&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

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  2020-04-16

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Frequent coauthors

• Joel P. Brereton

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• Brent Vine

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• H. Craig Melchert

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• Angelo Mercado

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• Alexander Lubotsky

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• Éric Pirart

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• Enric Aguilari Matas

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• Desmond Durkin

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