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Author |
: Lawrence Krader |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 19?? |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:57329151 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shaman of Northeast Asia by : Lawrence Krader
Author |
: Daniel A. Kister |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8962970198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788962970197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shamanic Worlds of Korea and Northeast Asia by : Daniel A. Kister
Author |
: Laurel Kendall |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824833435 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824833430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF by : Laurel Kendall
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.
Author |
: Sarah M. Nelson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131802238 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shamanism and the Origin of States by : Sarah M. Nelson
Sarah Milledge Nelson's bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia--China, Japan, Korea--was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans. Using a mixture of historical documents, mythology, archaeological data, and ethnographic studies of contemporary shamans, she builds a case for shamans being the driving force behind the blossoming of complex societies. More interesting, shamans in East Asia are generally women, who used their access to the spirit world to take leadership roles. This work challenges traditional interpretations growth of Asian states, which is overlaid with later Confucian notions of gender roles. Written at a level accessible for undergraduates, this concise work will be fascinating reading for those interested in East Asian archaeology, politics, and society; in gender roles, and in shamanism.
Author |
: Richard Zgusta |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 463 |
Release |
: 2015-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004300439 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004300430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time by : Richard Zgusta
The focus of Richard Zgusta’s The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeast Asia, including the Ainu, the “Paleoasiatic” peoples, and the Asiatic Eskimo. Most chapters begin with a summary of each culture at the beginning of the colonial era, which is followed by an interdisciplinary reconstruction of prehistoric cultures that have direct ancestor-descendant relationships with the modern ones. An additional chapter presents a comparative discussion of the ethnographic data, including subsistence patterns, material culture, social organization, and religious beliefs, from a diachronic viewpoint. Each chapter includes maps and extensive references.
Author |
: Kyoim Yun |
Publisher |
: Korean Studies of the Henry M. |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0295745959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780295745954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shaman's Wages by : Kyoim Yun
"Most studies of Korean shamanism--a popular religion that is both celebrated and stigmatized--have minimized regional differences, focusing on shamans from central Korea whose work involves spirit possession. Less attention has been paid to hereditary shamans, a number of whom have resided for centuries on Cheju Island, off Korea's southwest coast. Although simbang (native Cheju shamans) are relied upon to perform important rituals, for which they receive lavish offerings, they are often perceived as charlatans who swindle innocent people. This first study of the material exchange and politics of Korean shamanism describes interactions between shamans and their clients in order to show how this ritual exchange is distinct from other forms of transaction, such as barter, purchase, bribery, and gift-giving. The "ritual economy" of Korean simbang involves not only monetary payment, but also reciprocity, sincerity, and the expressive forms that practitioners use to authenticate ritual actions that both emphasize ritual exchange and distinguish it from other forms social and economic transactions"--
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2022-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004503502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004503501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia by :
An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.
Author |
: Henry N. Michael |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1963-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487591090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487591098 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia by : Henry N. Michael
This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and published. Levin has reviewed the old materials, gathered and analysed hitherto unpublished ones, and personally surveyed many of the peoples as a member of the Russian Northeastern Expedition. He makes use of all the data of physical anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics on the peoples he describes and has thus provided a definitive work on a nearly forgotten segment of mankind inhabiting an extensive territory. Volume III in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and under the general editorship of H.N. Michael, Temple University.
Author |
: Don S. Lee |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2018-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984539113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984539116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient History of Northeast Asia Redefined by : Don S. Lee
My acquaintances raise the question: Why does a medical doctor write a historiography? My answer is still the same as I provided in the past couple of times. Because of geopolitics and unique Korean culture, they couldnt envision the way I set the premises. Classic Chinese character interpretation has to be based upon reasoning. Traditional type of simple logic wouldnt work. Series of syllogism is needed to get the bottom out. The most reliable source of information is the logograms, its advancement, and the Shijing. Under the new study method, the legendary Dangun Wanggeom was unveiled. The Eurasian nomads moved to east, settled in the birth place of Yellow River Valley Civilization, controlled the epic flood, and set the capital of Dangun Joseon around the Xiechi pool. The mob killed Wanggeom, set the Xia dynasty ()of China, chased out the Dangun followers to the north. The Wanggeom followers ended up in the Xiongnu territory and left Donghu culture. They spread out to the north and also through the sea of Hahn to Japanese archipelago to Okinawa. Baekjae even had the Chinese Imperial Seal for awhile. Constant struggle of two groups is the History of Northeast Asia. This New Theory needs to be assessed by others.
Author |
: Laurel Kendall |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520298675 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520298675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mediums and Magical Things by : Laurel Kendall
Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.