1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Comparative Study on Local Knowledge in the Mediterranean World

Research Project

Project/Area Number	07309005
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	広領域
Research Institution	Hitotsubashi University
Principal Investigator	KATO Hiroshi Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi Univ., 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (10134636)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TAKAYAMA Hiroshi Faculty of Arts, the Univ.of Tokyo, 文学部, 助教授 (90226936) NAGASAWA Eiji Institute of Oriental Culture, the Univ.of Tokyo, 東洋文化研究所, 助教授 (00272493) TATEISHI Hirotaka Faculty of Foreign Languages, Tokyo Univ.of Foreign Studies, 外国語学部, 教授 (00137027) SAITO Hiromi Faculty of Education, Shinshu Univ., 教育学部, 教授 (00020628) TAKEUCHI Kei-ichi Faculty of Letters, Komazawa Univ., 文学部, 教授 (00017617)
Project Period (FY)	1995 – 1997
Keywords	Mediterranean World / Local Knowledge / Education
Research Abstract	The project "Comparative Study on Local Knowledge in the mediterranean World" was operated for three years from 1995 to 1997. The purpose of this project was to point out the systems of ideas and symbols as local knowledges, which unify a variety of co-exicting human groups in the Mediterranean world as are historical world, and to analyze the historic background and the political, economic, social, and cultural situation especially educational system for the formation of these systems of idea and symbols. The project was carried out by holding monthly seminars, offering special lectures by both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars such as Prof.Cynthia Nelson from the American University in Cairo and Prof.Mark Cohen from Princeton University. The result of the project was published in the journal "Mediterranean World XV" published. by the Mediterranean Studies Group, Hitotsubashi University.