Venenum, or venenum? Tacitus, Magic, and Don Quixote’s
Windmills : Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Study of
Ancient Magic

C 2024

Venenum, or venenum? Tacitus, Magic, and Don Quixote’s Windmills : Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Study of Ancient Magic

CHALUPA, Aleš

Základní údaje

Originální název

Venenum, or venenum? Tacitus, Magic, and Don Quixote’s Windmills : Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Study of Ancient Magic

Autoři

CHALUPA, Aleš

Vydání

Leiden, Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides : Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions, od s. 177-191, 15 s. Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Volume 31, 2024

Nakladatel

Brill

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00137075

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-3-506-79660-8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796601_010

Klíčová slova anglicky

ancient magic; curse tablets; definitions of magic; emic perspective; etic perspective

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 2. 2025 16:54, Mgr. Pavla Martinková

Anotace

V originále

The difficulties that complicate the search for a universally acceptable definition of “magic” have led some scholars to attempt to delineate magic using emic data. The main objective of this chapter is to discuss the practical applicability of emic data to further define magic. The chosen test case, a passage from Tacitus (Annales II, 69), is seen as a serious obstacle to these attempts. The emic approach, which seeks to understand magic in terms of the culture under study, has only a limited contribution to make to the formulation of a general category of magic, as Tacitus uses a single word, venenum, for two different activities (a magical attack and a poisoning). The translation of this expression, and thus the interpretation of the whole incident, becomes impossible unless we have a pre-existing etic category of magic at our disposal, even if it remains unexpressed.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1477/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Digitální výzkum náboženství v dlouhodobé perspektivě

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Digitální výzkum náboženství v dlouhodobé perspektivě

Citovat

CHALUPA, Aleš. Venenum, or venenum? Tacitus, Magic, and Don Quixote’s Windmills : Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Study of Ancient Magic. In Pokorny, Lukas K.; Mattes, Astris. Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides : Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions. Leiden: Brill, 2024, s. 177-191. Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Volume 31. ISBN 978-3-506-79660-8. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796601_010.

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CHALUPA, Aleš. Venenum, or venenum? Tacitus, Magic, and Don Quixote’s Windmills : Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Study of Ancient Magic. In Pokorny, Lukas K.; Mattes, Astris. \textit{Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides : Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions}. Leiden: Brill, 2024, s.~177-191. Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Volume 31. ISBN~978-3-506-79660-8. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796601\_{}010.

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