Korean anthropology : contemporary Korean culture in flux / edited by Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yunesŭk'o Han'guk Wiwŏnhoe.

Series:

Anthology of Korean studies ; v. 3.

Anthology of Korean studies ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Research--Korea (South).

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Research.

Korea (South).

Folklore--Research--Korea (South).

Folklore.

Folklore--Research.

Korea--Social life and customs.

Korea.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Korea Society (New York, N.Y.) (donor)

Physical Description:

xv, 657 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Elizabeth, NJ : Hollym, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1. How to understand Korean culture. Tradition in Korean society: continuity and change / Lim Jae-Hae

Teaching Korean culture through Korean studies: creating myths to live by / Werner Sasse

Representing Korean culture in America: a case study of the Korean ethnological collections at the Smithsonian institutuion / Choi Hyup

Study of how Koreans view and utilize nature / Choi Chang-jo

Living space in the traditional Korean houses / Shin Young-hoon

Part 2. Changing tradition. The communal ideology and its reality: with reference to the emergence of neo-tribalism / Kim Kwang-Ok

Kinship in contemporary Korea: normative model versus practice / Kim Song-Chul

Peasant culture and modernization in Korea: cultural implications of Saemaeul movement in the 1970s / Oh Myung-Seok

Ancestors becoming children of God: ritual clashes between Confucian tradition and Christianity in contemporary Korea / Moon Okpyo

Flexible sociality and the postmodernity of Seoul / Cho Myung-Rae

A "noisy and bothersome new custom": delivering a gift box to Korean bride / Laurel Kendall

Part 3. The world of women. Occupation, male housekeeper: male-female roles on Jeju-do Island / Yoon Soon-Young

The utilization of residential space and family relations: the case of the Korean rural family / Park Boo-Jin

"Home is a place to rest": constructing the meaning of work, family and gender in the Korean middle class / Yi Eunhee Kim

Gender and sexuality as a labor control mechanism: the gender identity of Korean female workers in a U.S. multinational corporation / Kim Hyun Mee

Woman and the culture surrounding childbirth / Kim Eun-Shil

Compartmentalized gender schema: a model of changing male-female relations in Korean society / Chunghee Sarah Soh

Part 4. Magic, science and religion in modern Korea. Caught between ancestors and spirits: field report of a Korean Mansin's healing Gut / Laurel Kendall

Korean Shamanic initiation as therapeutic transformation: a transcultural view / Edward R. Canda

Psychological aspects of Korean shamanism / Rhi Bou-Yong

Shaman's healing ceremonies in Korea / Kim Kwang-iel

Magic, science, and religion on Jeju-do Island / Yoon Soon-Young

Dramatic aspect of Shamanistic rituals / Rhie Sang-il

The strategies of a Korean fortune-teller / Dawnhee Yim

Part 5. Too modern too soon?. The social networks of Koreans / Yee Jaeyeol

Changes in values and generation gap during the past two decades (1979-1998) in Korea / Na Eun-Yeong and Cha Chae-ho

The politics of network and social trust: a case study in the organizational culture of the Korean venture industry / Han Kyung-Koo

Society in a vortex?: Yeonjul network and civil society in Korea / Lee Jaehyuck

Smoking in Korea / Paul Dredge

Trust, cooperation and social risk: a cross-cultural comparison / Kim Yong-Hak and Son Jaesok.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Korean anthropology.

ISBN:

156591175X

9781565911758

OCLC:

54861621