The Knowledgeable as a Resource and Legitimation of Power during and after the Crisis. Egypt during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (A03)

危机期间和危机后知识作为资源和权力的合法化。

• 批准号: 270484499
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research Centres
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/270484499?language=en
• 关键词: Knowledgeable; Resource; Legitimation; Power; during

This project deals with divination as an important discipline of the sciences of Mesopotamia. It focuses on the social group of literate experts, their “knowledge texts” and their cultural embedding. Looking into the future (divination) from a contemporary perspective constituted a rational activity. Ordinary people as well as political rulers attempted to obtain hints on future events and developments. Oracles and omens offered the possibility to avert future disaster. The project deals with the social group of those who commanded the divinatory knowledge as well as the ascriptions that they received in discourses of weakness. The strengths and weaknesses of this knowledge are dealt with from a contemporary and a retrospective perspective, always taking into account present day considerations of history of

这个项目涉及作为美索不达米亚科学的一个重要学科的占卜。它关注识字专家的社会群体，他们的“知识文本”和他们的文化嵌入。从当代的角度展望未来（占卜）是一种理性的活动。普通人和政治统治者都试图获得关于未来事件和发展的线索。预言和预兆提供了避免未来灾难的可能性。该项目涉及那些掌握占卜知识的社会群体，以及他们在弱势话语中接受的归属。这种知识的优势和劣势是从当代和回顾的角度来处理的，总是考虑到历史的今天的考虑