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

D 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 (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Leiden, Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions, od s. 177-191, 15 s. 2024

Nakladatel

Brill Schöningh

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-3-506-79660-8

Klíčová slova anglicky

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

Příznaky

Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 10. 2024 18:39, Mgr. Aleš Chalupa, Ph.D.

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

Přiložené soubory

9783506796608_10-Chalupa.pdf

Požádat o autorskou verzi souboru

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 Lukas K. Pokorny; Astris Mattes. Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions. Leiden: Brill Schöningh, 2024, s. 177-191. ISBN 978-3-506-79660-8.

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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 Lukas K. Pokorny; Astris Mattes. \textit{Taking Seriously, Not Taking Sides: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Religions}. Leiden: Brill Schöningh, 2024, s.~177-191. ISBN~978-3-506-79660-8.

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