• 제목/요약/키워드: Ancient Remains

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"삼국사기(三國史記)"에 기록된 의약내용(醫藥內容) 분석 (Study on Medical Records In ${\ulcorner}$the Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms${\lrcorner}$)

  • 신순식;최환수
    • 제3의학
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.35-54
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    • 1997
  • We tried to observe the features of ancient medical practice by analysing the records related to medicine in the book, ${\ulcorner}$the Historical Records of the Three Kingdom${\lrcorner}$ of which content includes the features of medicine in mythology, plague, delivery of twins, drugs, medical system, shamanism, constitutional medicine, psychiatry, forensic medicine, deformity, a spa, medical phrase, health and welfare work, religion, death. physiological anatomy, Taoist medicine, acupuncture, the occult af of transformation and etc. Our initial concern was about where to draw line as of medical field and we defined medicine in more broad meaning. The book ${\ulcorner}$the Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms${\lrcorner}$ describes the world of mythology by way of medicine which is not clearly a conventional one. There appears records of birth of multiple offsprings 7 times in which cases are of triplets or more. Delivering multiple offsprings were rare phenomenon though such fertility was highly admired. This shows one aspect of ancient country having more population meant more power of the nation. Of those medical records conveyed in that book includes stories of childbirth such as giving birth to a son after praying, giving birth to Kim Yoo-shin after 20 months after mother's dream of conception, and a song longing for getting a laudable child. Plagues were prevalent throughout winter to spring season and one can observe various symptoms of plagues in the record. Of these epidemic diseases, cold type might have been more common than the heat one. Appearance of epidemic diseases frequently coincided with that of natural disasters that this suggests a linkage between plague and underlying doctrine on five elements' motion and six kinds of natural factors. There exists only a few names of diseases such as epidemic disease, wind disease, and syndrome characterized by dyspnea. Otherwise there appeared only afflictions that were not specified therefore it remains cluless to keep track of certain diseases of prevalence. Since this ${\ulcorner}$Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms'${\lrcorner}$ wasn't any sort of medical book, words and terms used were not technical kind and most were the ones used generally among lay people. Therefore any mechanisms of the diseases were hardly mentioned. Some of medicinal substances such as Calculus Bovis, Radix Ginseng, Gaboderma Luciderm, magnetitum were also in use in those days. 53 kinds of dietary supplies appears in the records and some of these might have been used as medicinal purpose. Records concerning dicipline of one's body includes activities such as hunting, archery, horseback riding etc. In Shilla dynasty there were positions such as professor of medicine, Naekongbong(內供奉), Kongbong's doctor(供奉醫師), Kongbong's diviner(供奉卜師). As an educational facility, medical school was built at the first year of King Hyoso's reign and it's curricula included various subjects as ${\ulcorner}$Shin Nong's Herbal classic${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$Kabeul classic of acupuncture and moxbustion${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$The Plain Questions of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$Classic of Acupuncturer${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$The Pulse Classic${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$Classic of Channels and Acupuncture Points${\lrcorner}$ and ${\ulcorner}$Difficult Classic${\lrcorner}$. There were 2 medical professors who were in charge of education. To establish pharmacopoeia, 2 Shaji(舍知), 6 Sha(史), 2 Jongshaji(從舍知) were appointed. In Baekje dynasty, Department of Herb was maintained. Doing praying for the sake of health, doing phrenology also can be extended to medical arena. Those who survived over 100 years of age appear 3 times in the record, while 98 appears once. The earliest psychiatrist Nokjin differentiated symptoms to apply either therapies using acupuncture and drug or psychotherapy. There appears a case of rape, a case of burying alive with the dead, 8 cases of suicide that can characterize a prototype of forensic medicine. Deformity-related records include phrases as follow: 'there seems protrudent bone behind the head', 'a body which has two heads, two trunks, four arms.', 'a body equipped with two heads' In those times spa can be said to be used as a place for he리ing, convalescence, and relaxation seeing the records describing a person pretended illness and went to spa to enjoy with his friends. Priest doctors and millitary surgeons were in charge of the medical sevice in the period of the Three Kingdoms by the record written by Mookhoja(墨胡子) and Hoonkyeom(訓謙). Poor diet and regimen makes people more vulnerable to diseases. So there existed charity services for those poor people who couldn't live with one's own capacity such as single parents, orphans, the aged people no one to take care and those who are ill. The cause of affliction was frequently coined with human relation. There appeared the phenomenon of releasing prisoners and allowing people to become priests at the time of king's suffering. Besides, as a healing procedure, sutra-chanting was peformed. There appears 10 cases of death related records which varies from death by drowning, or by freezing, death from animals, death from war, death from wightloss and killing oneself at the moment of spouse's death and etc. There also exist certain records which suggest the knowledge of physiology and anatomy in those times. Since the taoist books such as ${\ulcorner}$Book of the Way and Its Power(老子道德經)${\lrcorner}$ were introduced in the period of Three Kingdoms, it can be considered that medicine was also influenced by taoism. Records of higher level of acupuncture, records which links the medicine and occult art of transformation existed. Although limited, we could figure out the medical state of ancient society.

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고려시대 사람들의 삶과 전통의상에 대한 고찰 (A Study of People's Lives and Traditional Costumes in Goryeo Dynasty)

  • 최규성
    • 복식문화연구
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    • 제12권6호
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    • pp.1060-1069
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    • 2004
  • We can study and judge the costumes of the Three Kingdom period through an ancient tomb murals and various burial mound(clay) figures, however, it is quite difficult to search for costumes of the Goryeo period ($960{\sim}1392$), because dresses from this era were rarely found, related antiquities are limited and hard to survive. This is the reason why people say that the Goryeo Dynasty is the period of undiscovered era for its history of costumes in Korea. Fortunately, these days, there are various kinds of buddhist statues discovered with its burial accessories such as costumes and dyed fabrics of the Goryeo era. Through these, we can glimpse through the Goryeo cloths and develop our researches on this field. In addition, a man called Seo Geung(서긍, the Chinese scholar Xu Jing) wrote a book in the 12th century about peoples lives in Goryeo and in this book, there are few documents about the people's costumes which help us to understand the period's traditional dresses. In this paper, we will look for the traditional costumes which were formed and developed through people's lives in Goryeo, using remains from various burial accessories in buddhist statues as well as the documents related to the costumes written in ${\ll}$Goryeosa 고려사${\gg}$. Moreover, costumes of a period usually developed and influenced by the atmosphere of people's lives both economically and mentally, therefore, in this study, we will especially focus on the dresses of the bureaucratic officials and their wives, who led comfortable lives and latitude of mind. Through the records, like Silla, Goryeo exported Sehjeo(세저) and Sehjoongmapo(세중마포) to China. And we found out that Silla's skillful weaving techniques of hemp and ramie cloths were succeeded to Goryeo. According to above facts, Goryeo people made clothes with various kinds of fabrics such as, different sorts of silks, ramie, hemp cloths and cottons. They also have very skillful manufacturing techniques for certain textiles. Their official robes were generally influenced by Tang and Song Dynasty, but, like ordinary people, we found out that the government officials also wore baji(pants) and a jeogor(jacket), which were traditional costumes since the Unified Silla Kingdom with various coats. Especially, women's costumes such as jeoksam(unlined summer jacket) and hansam(한삼), which are sort of jeogori(jacket), baji(pants) and chima(skirts) were made of various kinds of silks and ramie cloths, that were generated from the Goguryeo Kingdom, with jikryeongpo(a long jacket and striped skirt).

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관중숭불도에 나타난 16세기 복식연구 (A Study of Costumes in the Palace Painting Depicting the Worship of Buddha during the Reign of King Myungjong)

  • 홍나영;김소현
    • 복식
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    • 제38권
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    • pp.305-321
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    • 1998
  • The costume style of the Chosun dynasty changed greatly after Imjinwaeran (the Japanese Invasion of Chosun Korea, 1592∼1598). Most of the extant costumes come from the late Chosun, but some costumes produced be-fore Imjinwaeran have been excavated, and in addition, information on these older constumes is contained in contemporary literature. Of especial value in the study of pre-Imjinwaeran Chosun constumes is a mid-sixteenth century palace painting depicting the worship of Buddha, a painting in the collection of the Ho-Am Art Museum in Seoul. The present study of costume during the middle Chosun dynasty focuses on this painting, and compares it with other contemporary palace paintings, and with other contemporary palace paintings, and with Nectar Ritual Paintings. The following conclusion were drawn : * Concerning woman's hair styles of the time, married women wore a large wig. Un-married women braided their hair, and then either let it fall down their back or wore it coiled on top of their head. * The major characteristic of woman's costumes was a ample, tube-like silhouette, with the ratio of the Jeogori(Korean woman's jacket) and skirt being one-to-one. * The style of Jeogori in the painting was like that of excavated remains. Some Jeogoris were simple (without decoration), while some Jeogoris were worn with red sashes. Here we can confirm the continuity of ancient Korean costumes with those of the sixteenth century * Although the skirt covered the ankles, it did not touch the ground. Because the breadth of the skirt was not wide, it seems to have been for ordinary use. Colors of skirts were mainly white or light blue. * All men in the painting wore a headdress. Ordinary men, not Buddhist monks, wore Bok-du (headstring), Chorip (straw hat), or Heuk-rip (black hat). In this painting, men wore a Heukrip which had a round Mojeong (crown). * The men wore sashes fastened around their waist to close their coats, which was different from the late Chosun, in which men bound their sashes around their chest. That gave a ration of the bodice of the coat to the length of the skirt of one-to-one, which was consistent with that of woman's clothing. * In this painting, we cannot see the Buddhist monk's headdress that appeared later in the Chosun, such as Gokkal (peaked hat), Songnak (nun's hat), and Gamtu (horsehair cap). These kinds of headdresses, which appeared in paintings from the seventeenth century, were worn widely inside or outside the home. Buddhist monks wore a light blue long coat, called Jangsam (Buddhist monk's robe) and wore Gasa (Buddhist monk's cope), a kind of ceremonial wrap, round their body. We can see that the Gasa was very splendid in the early years of the Chosun dynasty, a continuing tradition of Buddhist monk's costumes from the Koryo dynasty.

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제직기술과 문양을 통해 본 금직물(錦織物)의 동서교류에 관한 연구 - 고대부터 당시대를 중심으로 - (A Study on the Cultural Exchange of the Weaving Skills and Patterns Witnessed in Geum-textiles between the East and West - from Ancient Times to the Tang Dynasty -)

  • 신혜성
    • 복식
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    • 제62권4호
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    • pp.107-122
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes and developments that occurred as a result of the exchanges of gyeong-geum(經錦), a warp-faced compound weave of East Asia, and wie-geum(緯錦), a weft-faced compound weave of West Asia. In order to maximize the efficiency of this research, topics were narrowed down to the weaving skills and patterns, and the period was limited to the Tang dynasty. The systematic characteristics and differences of gyeong-geum and wie-geum were compared and contrasted through different works of literature. Then the excavated remains of geum-textiles were analyzed and the characteristics of the geum-textiles were defined in chronological order. The origin of wie-geum is traced back to the time when West Asia started to imitate the weaving style of the East Asian gyeong-geum. When combined with the weaving skills of the West Asian, gyeong-geum, which broke through the West and developed into the weft-faced compound twill silk, or samite. The exchange of geum-textiles took place as the techniques of gastric filament woven geum-textiles returned to the East. Along with the pearl roundel motifs of Sassanian Persia, mythical animals and western motifs of hunter patterns were used for the patterns of wie-geumin during the early Tang dynasty. This tendency is related to pa-sa-geum(波斯錦), ho-geum(胡錦), beon-geum(番錦) according to the recorded literature. The 8th and 9th century are periods when the West Asian Persian style was abandoned and the East Asian style, samite, was established. Not only did S twist silk threads replace Z twists, but also the repetition of patterns unfolded along with the weft and the warp. As this tendency was strengthened after the 9th century, the expression of patterns became more vividly colorful and showed both elements of naturalism and realism. The characteristics of the Bosangwha(寶相花) pattern in the Tang period were established with the rampantly repeated rosettes with birds often holding auspicious branches, that fly amid floral compositions.

북한의 고구려 고고학 조사·연구의 성과와 과제 (On the Studies of Koguryo Archaeology in North Korea)

  • 강현숙
    • 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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    • 제53권1호
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    • pp.106-125
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    • 2020
  • 1949년 안악3호분의 발굴로부터 현재에 이르기까지 북한에서 조사한 고구려 고분과 성곽 등 많은 유적은 남한 고구려 고고학 연구의 중요한 자료가 되었다. 해방 이후부터 고고학 조사와 관련된 제도를 정비한 북한에서는 압록강 유역의 적석총과 안악3호분이나 덕흥리벽화분을 위시한 고분, 대성산성과 안학궁 등 평양과 지방의 성곽과 신원 도시유적 등을 조사하여 고구려 역사를 체계화하고 문화의 우수성을 밝혔다고 평가한다. 그러나 1990년대 이후 북한의 고구려 고고학 조사와 연구는 '대동강문화'의 연장선상에서 진행되다보니 고고학 조사는 평양을 중심으로 한 서북한 일대에 치중되었고, 그 결과는 '고구려는 고조선을 계승한 천년 강성대국'이라는 대명제를 실증, 확증한다는 결론으로 귀결되고 있다. 이러한 주체적인 해석은 더욱 공고해져서 고구려 건국연대를 기원전 277년으로 소급시키고 이에 연동하여 적석총의 등장은 기원전 3세기로, 고구려의 평양진출을 3세기대로, 평양은 4세기 이전에 부수도로서 위상을 갖추었다고 평가한다. 최근에는 평양 일원의 성곽은 층위적으로 고구려의 고조선 계승이 증명되었다고 주장한다. 그러나 고구려의 기원전 277년 건국이나 고조선 계승의 고고학적 근거가 객관성을 담보했다고 보기 어렵다. 단군릉과 동명왕릉의 개건에서 드러나듯이 자칫 선택적 조사와 자의적인 해석이라는 비판의 소지가 있다. 때문에 남한에서의 고구려 고고학 연구는 북한의 발굴조사와 보고된 자료를 그대로 취신할 것인가, 또는 유적, 유물에 대한 해석을 그대로 인용할 것인가 등에 대한 비판적 검토가 필요하다. 남, 북한의 공동 조사와 학술교류가 필요한 이유이다.

고대 한반도 주조철기 열처리 기술에 대한 고찰 (A Study of Cast Ironware Heat Treatment Technique in Ancient Korea)

  • 최영민
    • 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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    • 제53권1호
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    • pp.168-183
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    • 2020
  • 기원전 5세기부터 중국에서는 주조철기의 사용을 늘리기 위해 주조철기 특유의 취성(脆 性)을 제거하려 노력해 왔다. 그중 한 가지는 주조철기를 생산한 다음 별도의 가마에서 풀림열처리를 하는 기술이다. 이 기술은 조직 내 탄소를 응집하거나 제거해, 주조철기의 취성을 제거하고 단조(鍛造)를 가능하게 만드는 것이다. 풀림열처리 기술의 실체를 명확히 하기 위해 현재의 제철 기술 및 중국·일본의 연구 성과를 바탕으로 한반도 출토 고대 주조철기 가운데, 풀림열처리 기술이 확인된 가단주철제 주조철기를 검토하였다. 그 결과 원삼국시대 이전까지 가단주철제 주조철기는 모두 외부로부터 수입된 것으로 추정된다. 또한 일본 이시가미신궁에 소장 중인 칠지도가 한반도에서 제작된 것으로 본다면, 4세기에 들어서야 백제에서는 풀림열처리 기술을 확보했을 가능성이 있다. 하지만 당시에는 괴련철을 중심으로 철 생산이 이루어졌으며, 괴련철을 정련한 괴련강을 소재로 다량의 단조철기가 제작되었다. 또한 기존의 주조철기 중 주조괭이를 제외한 대부분의 주조철기가 단조철기로 대체되었다. 따라서 삼국시대까지 풀림열처리 기술은 많이 사용되지 못하였다. 하지만 통일신라시대에 들어서 철 생산 및 유통의 지역 거점인 장안리 유적에서 확인될 정도로 기술이 확산된 것을 확인하였다.

코티지 가든에 표상된 영국성 (Englishness represented in a Cottage Garden)

  • 조혜령
    • 한국조경학회지
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    • 제45권1호
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2017
  • 오늘날 대중들이 만드는 일반적인 화단의 형태나 식물 가꾸기 및 가드닝 활동은 영국의 코티지 가든(Cottage Garden)의 원형에서 찾아 볼 수 있다. 코티지 가든은 근대 영국에서 발생된 대중적 정원양식으로 민속성(Ethnic sense), 토착성(Vernacular)을 비롯하여 특유의 영국성(Englishness)을 함축하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 지난 200여 년 간의 영국의 근대적 움직임을 살펴보고 이러한 과정 속에 출현한 코티지 가든의 발생 배경과 그 특징 고찰하여 코티지 가든이 내포하고 있는 영국성을 읽어 내고자 하는데 그 목적을 두며, 다음과 같이 요약될 수 있다. 첫째, 자유와 풍경을 사랑하는 영국인의 자연관은 애국주의 핵심요소로 작동하여 전원적 잉글랜드의 보존과 연결된다. 이러한 시골에 대한 영국인들의 이상(Ideal)은 다양한 문학 및 예술적 산물로부터 영국인의 전원성을 발견할 수 있으며, 식물수집과 공급의 활성화와 함께 새로운 정원의 형태인 코티지 가든을 발생케 했다. 둘째, 초기 코티지 가든의 형태는 도시화에 따른 중산계층의 교외 이주로 인하여 채원이 존재하는 자급농원의 형태로 이루어졌으나, 다양한 근대사회의 상황과 맞물려(공예진흥 운동, 유적보호 및 고건물복구운동) 예술성과 지역성, 토착성, 생태성을 겸비한 정원의 형태로 진화되었다. 이러한 과정에서 발생된 와일드가든은 영국의 야생들판과 숲을 재현한 정원으로 현재에 이르기까지 많은 정원디자이너들에게 큰 영향을 주고 있다. 이러한 다양한 영국성이 투영된 코티지 가든은 도시계획, 플라워쇼의 주제로 등장하며, 영국을 상징하는 문화로 존재한다.

하도(河圖)와 러셀 역설 (Hado and Russell's Paradox)

  • 김병수
    • 동의생리병리학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.583-590
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    • 2007
  • The significance of Han medicine (韓醫學), the Korean traditional medicine, that has lasted throughout the past couple millenniums relies upon Han Philosophy distinguished by its uniqueness. In brief, the specificity of Han medicine is characterized by unity of spirit and body, part and whole. According to this theory, when curing a frozen shoulder, it is usually cured by acupuncturing the area around the part that aches, but also doing so on the area that is totally different from the aching part such as the opposite part of the body. In fact, this can be pursued only through aspects that enable one to realize the unity of part and whole, and a ground for this possibility bases upon the crux of Eastern Philosophy, I-ching(역), such as theory of Five Elements (음양오행) and Three Pillars(삼재). In Western set theory, the issues of Class(부류) and elements(요원), whole and part were independently discussed in the area of mereology, and the question of part and whole was encountered with aporia and paradox since Greek ancient philosophy. At the turn of this century, many philosophers endeavored to pursue academic inquiry to resolve this paradox, especially by Russell and Whitehead through ${\ll}$Principia Mathematica${\gg}$ at the beginning of this century. in the process, there came out a phrase 'Russell's Paradox'. Russell himself proposed a typological resolution as an answer to the inquiry. However, 'Russell's Paradox' still remains as an aporia even till present days. During medieval period, this inquiry was even considered as 'insolubia'. Throughout this paper, 1 attempt to provide an analytic aspect on 'Russell's Paradox' from an unique thinking method and perspective of Han medicine that embodies the concept of 'unity of part and whole'. To do so, 1 suggest a physiological model in the first place depicted by diagrams of Circle 원, Quadrangle 방, Triangle 각(CQT) that portray the logic of Hado or Hotu 하도 which is 'the pattern from the river Ho'. That is to suggest that CQT원방각 of Hado can De a logical foundation that explains the notions of spirit (정신,뇌), internal organs(장부), and meridian system which functions as a solution to the question of 'Russell's Paradox'. There are precedent academic works examining the issue from philosophical aspect such as Sangil Kim's ${\ulcorner}$Han medicine과 러셀역설 해의${\lrcorner}$ Han Medicine and Resolution of Russell's Paradox(2005), and this analysis will further attempt to critically examine such works from a perspective of Han medicine.

야쿠트 구비서사시 '올롱호' 연구 시론: 『용감한 뉴르군 보오투르』를 중심으로 (A Preliminary Investigation on the Oral Epic Olonkho in Yakutia: Focusing on the Analysis of Nurgun Boutur the Swift)

  • 김중순
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제43권
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    • pp.207-239
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    • 2016
  • 시베리아에서 중앙아시아까지 연결되는 알타이 인문벨트는 문명사적으로 매우 중요하다. 더구나 한반도의 교대문명 형성에도 막대한 영향을 끼쳤다. 따라서 고고학을 비롯하여 민속학과 인류학 등에서는 이에 관해 그동안 다양한 연구를 해왔고, 그 가운데 하나가 구비서사시다. 구비서사시는 한국에서 독특한 전승의 양식으로 남아있지만, 알타이 인문벨트를 구성하는 요소로서 주목하게 된 것은 그리 오래되지 않았다. 최근에 우리에게 중앙아시아와 몽골, 그리고 시베리아의 일부 서사시가 소개된 것도 그런 맥락이라고 할 수 있다. 이 시론의 목적은 시베리아에 위치한 야쿠티아의 구비서사시 올롱호를 국내 학계에 소개하는 데 있다. 올롱호는 최근에야 그 모습을 드러냈지만, 그것이 차지하는 위치는 막중하다. 그동안 서사시 연구가 서구중심의 시각에 매몰되어 있었다면, 올롱호는 서사시 연구에 있어서 보다 글로벌 시각을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 무엇보다도 그 내용이나 구연방식이 서구의 그것과는 크게 다르고, 그 원형이 비교적 잘 보존되어 있어서 새로운 연구 실마리를 내포하고 있기 때문이다. 특히 신화시대에서 영웅시대로 넘어오는 과정에서 인류의 사고와 행동양식이 어떻게 변해왔는지를 설명하고 있기도 하다. 그것은 야쿠티아의 민족역사 뿐만 아니라 10세기를 전후한 알타이 제 국가들의 형성과정까지 보여주고 있다. 따라서 이 시론은 방대한 서사시 올롱호 원문의 한국어 번역을 촉진하고, 본격적인 내용 연구가 이루어질 수 있도록 하는 밑거름이 될 것이다. 특히 중앙아시아와 시베리아와 한반도의 구비서사시 전통을 비교하여 어떻게 같고 다른지를 살필 수 있다면 알타이 인문벨트 형성을 위한 중요한 담론이 될 뿐만 아니라 문명사 연구의 새로운 지평을 열 수 있을 것이다.

한국에서 유라시아 문명교류사 연구의 성과와 과제 (A brief introduction to the research of cultural exchange of Eurasian Continent in Korea)

  • 권오영
    • 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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    • 제48권3호
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    • pp.166-185
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    • 2015
  • 최근 세계적으로 유라시아 대륙의 경제적 중요성이 부각되면서 동서를 연결하던 고대 교통로에 대한 연구의 필요성이 증대하고 있다. 국내 학계에서 유라시아 동서 문명 교섭에 대한 연구는 아직은 그다지 활발할 편이 아니지만 역사학, 고고학, 미술사, 민속학, 복식사 등 다양한 분야에서 꾸준히 연구를 진행시켜 왔다. 북방 초원길을 통한 교섭사는 한민족과 한국문화의 기원에 대한 관심에서 비롯되었는데, 몽골과 카자흐스탄지역의 유적에 대한 직접적인 조사가 꾸준히 이루어지면서 흉노, 쿠르간 문화 등으로 연구영역이 확장되고 있다. 사막과 오아시스의 길을 통한 교섭은 미술사 분야에서 연구를 주도해왔다. 이란, 우즈베키스탄, 아제르바이잔 등에 대한 현지조사가 다양한 경로를 통해 진행되면서 신라의 황금문화, 유리의 전래, 불교문화의 동전 등 다양한 주제에 대한 연구가 심화되고 있다. 바닷길에 대한 연구는 다른 분야에 비해 부진한 편이다. 동남아시아에 소재하는 불교와 힌두교 사원에 대한 관심은 적지 않았으나 이 유적들을 연결하는 바닷길의 복원과 그 의미에 대한 연구로 확산되어야 한다. 베트남의 돈 손 문화와 싸 후인 문화 유적을 국내 연구자들이 직접 조사하게 됨으로써 앞으로 이 분야 연구가 활성화될 것으로 기대된다. 앞으로는 한국사, 한국 문화와 직접 관련이 없는 주제에 대해서도 관심을 가져야 한다. 인류 공동의 문명을 연구하고 보존하는 것도 우리의 책임이기 때문이다.