{"pk":38134,"title":"The Uniqueness of the West Reinforced: A Reply to Beckwith, Goldstone, and Turchin","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper defends the ‘Kurgan hypothesis,’ the uniqueness of the epic heroic poetry of Indo-Europeans, and the uniqueness of Western civilization generally. The term ‘uniqueness’ is defined and associated with cultural creativity rather than with global economic and military dominance only.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Forum","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1h1529x6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ricardo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Duchesne","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-07-25T18:49:52Z","date_accepted":"2013-07-25T18:49:52Z","date_published":"2013-06-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38134/galley/28701/download/"}]}