지중해 지역 연구의 과제와 지중해학 -교류의 단위와 유형화를 중심으로-

Abstract

The Mediterranean area has the homogeneity through the ceaseless inter-cultural communication, and that have to be understood as a connected area not a divided one by the sea. And the Mediterranean has the most suitable condition for the unit of area studies. In the 21st century, each regions are not divided, but they have closely connections with each other in economy, society and culture. And these are reflecting the situation of the globe which different countries are closely connected and each other influenced. In this point, the different-looking civilizations in the Mediterranean are closely connected with sometimes conflicts and sometimes inter-cultural communication, and so the Mediterranean can be called as a miniature of the globe which globalism can be applied. So the Mediterranean have to be understood as the regional unit which has something in common through mutual exchanges between different cultures. And to understand the relations of communication and exchange among the civilizations which have made homogeneity of the Mediterranean, it is necessary to divide the subjects of exchange, that is, the individual units and to concrete them clearly. So the unit, or the subject of exchanges between the different cultures is the most important character of clearly dividing the different organizations and groups. A Classification for inter-cultural communication of the Mediterranean is useful to understand the characters of the Mediterranean civilization. So a Classification must be accepted not as the individual things, but as the motives of inter-cultural communication and then it took a conclusion that inter-cultural communication of the Mediterranean area can be classified as exchanges by one’s own cooperation, exchanges by the political, social, economical pressure. And also it can be mixing with the first and second. Anyway this will be a basis for stereotyping of inter-cultural communication. The Mediterranean Studies are scientifically on the step of a germ. On the basis of objective understanding about the history and civilization of the Mediterranean area, the Mediterranean studies is the open science which searches the way of living together for the Mediterranean countries and civilizations. And also it is the science for cooperation and living together which can overcome orientalism and occidentalism.