Comparative Study on Local Knowledge in the Mediterranean World

“地中海世界地方知识比较研究”项目从1995年至1997年进行了三年。这个项目的目的是指出作为地方知识的思想和符号系统，它统一了地中海世界和历史世界中各种共存的人类群体，并分析这些思想和符号系统形成的历史背景和政治、经济、社会和文化状况，特别是教育系统。该项目通过每月举行研讨会来实施，由日本和非日本学者，如开罗美国大学的辛西娅·纳尔逊教授和普林斯顿大学的马克·科恩教授提供特别讲座。该项目的成果发表在《地中海世界第十五期》杂志上。一桥大学地中海研究小组的研究。

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.