| Project/Area Number |
16320044
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Osaka University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Shigeo Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor (40273734)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJIMOTO Yuko Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for World Languages, Professor (40152590)
TAKEHARA Shin Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for World Languages, Associate Professor (20324874)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥11,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥4,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000)
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| Keywords | Islamic Culture / Iran / Persian Language / Etymology / Folklore / Literature / XML / Database / 祭祀 / 信仰 / フィールドワーク / 語源 / 文学論 |
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| Research Abstract |
Fieldwork on worship and belief in Islamic Republic of Iran, works to construct a database about material gathered by fieldwork and applied research of theories of Persian literature were mainly done as activities of this research. Concretely, the study was made in the way written as below, from 1 to 3. Assitant staffs who have an expert knowledge on Persian language were utilized in Data input and simple work.
1. Fieldwork in Islamic Republic of Iran: The head investigator, investigators and cooperating scientists gathered photo materials on ancient ruins, video materials on "sofreh" ritual that is a women's folk belief and sound materials on folktales, legends and folk beliefs in Islamic Republic of Iran by using this grant aid in each fiscal year.
2. Construction of database: This work was done mainly as the most important part of this project. Material on Iranian worship and belief which was gathered by this project or other project so far was formatted into XML. The data was categorized into three groups (ancient ruins, "soft-eh" ritual and folktales) and divided into sub-category data, event data and material data. The most part of this database was made by XML and the search systemwas, equipped too.
3. Applied research: The head investigator researched from a point of view of lingual history based on this research including editing a Persian etymological dictionary. Other investigators and cooperating scientists researched from points of view of their specialty, too.
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