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Janis Paliepa
J. Palieps' first career was as a professional engineer, but upon retirement his interests turned to the humanities and, in particular, to the question of the origin of Latvian folk poetry, the Dai...view moreJ. Palieps' first career was as a professional engineer, but upon retirement his interests turned to the humanities and, in particular, to the question of the origin of Latvian folk poetry, the Dainas. He received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Concordia University followed byan MSc in Ethnolinguistics from the Universit de Montral. As a result of his studies, he published a monograph The Latvian Dainas and the Vedic Hymns in the Latvian language in 2004. It contained a comparative analysis of these two mytho-poetic corpuses, the Indo-European penetration into Old Europe, and the determination of the origin of the Latvian language and the mytho-poetic Dainas. The monograph has received positive comments by the members of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and Dr. habil philol. V. Hausmanis notes: ``Palieps has accomplished an important work by studying the Latvian Dainas in context with the Vedas and I.E. culture. The research covers a wide range of problems, and J. Palieps overall knowledge is remarkable``. With the publication of this book, he hopes to familiarize foreign scientists with the mytho-poetic Dainas, as well as facilitate further research in Baltic and Vedic linguistic and cultural developments in general.view less