2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic research on the social functions of the act of Cursing in the Greek-Roman World
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15K02956
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Musashino Academia Musicae |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-10-21 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 古代ローマ史 / 古代地中海世界史 / 古代ヨーロッパ史 / 宗教史 / 文化人類学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
“Basic research on the social functions of the act of Cursing in the Greek-Roman World” is the title of my research in these three years term. Up to this date, to understand how to ease the tensions and to solve the conflicts in the communities of the classical world, the stress is generally put on the legal solutions to which we can refer as ‘public’ or ‘rational’. However, so many cursing documents have been found and its contents clearly indicate that the ‘private’, ‘irrational’ or, say, obscured methods played much more important roles in the process of easing the tensions among the people in the classical world. So, in this basic research, I’ve worked on the task of understanding that process from the very different point of view, putting my emphasis especially on the act of cursing by comitting the curse tablets. And I can say I’ve been successful to establish the foundation for future development of the research in this area.
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| Free Research Field |
古代地中海世界の政治、社会、宗教の歴史研究
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