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Book The Assemblage of Korean Shamanism

Download or read book The Assemblage of Korean Shamanism written by Joonseong Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. This book approaches that puzzle of mysterious duality using an interdisciplinary lens. Korean shamanism has been under continuous oppression and marginalization for a long time, and that circumstance has never dissipated. Shaman culture can be found in every corner of people’s lives in contemporary Korea, but few acknowledge their indigenous beliefs with pride. This mysterious duality has deepened as the mediatization process of Korean shamanism has developed. Korean shamanism was revived as the dynamic of shamanic inheritance in the process, but these dynamics have also become the object of mockery. For this reason, any true understanding of Korean shamanism rests in how to unravel the unique puzzles of this mysterious duality. In this book, the duality is mapped out by playing with the puzzles surrounding the contextualization of Korean shamanism and mediatization.

Book Shamanism

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  • Author : R. W. L. Guisso
  • Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0895818868
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Shamanism written by R. W. L. Guisso and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of psychological and anthropological studies about the oldest and the most fascinating religious tradition of Korea.

Book Korean Shamanistic Rituals

Download or read book Korean Shamanistic Rituals written by Jung Young Lee and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Book Korean Shamanism and Cultural Nationalism

Download or read book Korean Shamanism and Cultural Nationalism written by Hyun-key Kim Hogarth and published by 지문당. This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korean Shamanism

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  • Author : Chongho Kim
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Korean Shamanism written by Chongho Kim and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Koreans use shamanic ritual even though prejudice against shamanism is universal ? Why do so many Koreans employ a pratice that is widely stigmatised and despised as superstition ?

Book Contemporary Korean Shamanism

Download or read book Contemporary Korean Shamanism written by Liora Sarfati and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans—who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed—are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean shamanism are changing as shamanic traditions appear in staged rituals, museums, films, and television programs, as well as on the internet. Contemporary Korean Shamanism explores this vernacular religion and practice, which includes sensory rituals using laden altars, ecstatic dance, and animal sacrifice, within South Korea's hypertechnologized society, where over 200,000 shamans are listed in professional organizations. Liora Sarfati reveals how representations of shamanism in national, commercialized, and screen-mediated settings have transformed opinions of these religious practitioners and their rituals. Applying ethnography and folklore research, Contemporary Korean Shamanism maps this shift in perception about shamanism—from a sign of a backward, undeveloped Korea to a valuable, indigenous cultural asset.

Book The History and Structure of Korean Shamanism

Download or read book The History and Structure of Korean Shamanism written by 柳東植 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Songs of the Shaman

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  • Author : Boudewijn Walraven
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Songs of the Shaman written by Boudewijn Walraven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the English language devoted to the study of Korean shaman songs, this book is essential reading for those with an interest in Korean shamanism, the literature and cultural history of Korea, and shamanism and oral literature in general. Shamanism, commonly regarded as the oldest religion in Korea, is still a force in the modern industrial society of today. Korean shamans, performing their rituals, sing and dance for the gods they worship as they have done for centuries.

Book Korean Shamanism Muism

Download or read book Korean Shamanism Muism written by Tʻae-gon Kim and published by 지문당. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mu ga

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  • Author : Sŏk-chae Im
  • Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0895818299
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Mu ga written by Sŏk-chae Im and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is mainly comprised of a translation into English of four complete large-scale Korean Shaman ritual songs transcribed from tape recordings, which, until the present time, have remained either entirely untranslated, or, if otherwise, are only quoted in the form of brief excerpts in a few short articles. The song contents cover a broad regional spectrum which contain invaluablematerials related to Korean folklore, mythology, literature, history, and religion, and offer deep insight into a facet of Korean culture that has remained largely overlooked and unexplored.

Book Korean Shamanism and Cultural Nationalism

Download or read book Korean Shamanism and Cultural Nationalism written by Hyun-key Hogarth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hanyang Kut

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  • Author : Maria K. Seo
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-08-21
  • ISBN : 1000012255
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Hanyang Kut written by Maria K. Seo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea. Placed firmly in a social and historical context, it shows that Shamanism, considered superstition by many today, is alive and well in Seoul in a rich tradition reaching back to the Chosôn Dynasty (1392-1910), the capital of which was Hanyang (now Seoul). The instruments, dress and other accoutrements of courtly life from the Chosôn Dynasty have been taken up, although transformed, in contemporary rituals among spirit-possessed Shamans. Through a comparison of Hanyang kut - the rituals of the Hanyang Shamans - and the ritual practice of Inner Asian Shamans, and through an analysis of the relations of spirit-possession music rituals to musok, the indigenous religion of Korea, Seo sheds light on the role of music, spiritual practice and culture in present-day Korea.

Book The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman

Download or read book The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shamanism in Korean Christianity

Download or read book Shamanism in Korean Christianity written by Nam Hyuck Jang and published by 지문당. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korean Shamanism  Revivals  Survivals  and Change

Download or read book Korean Shamanism Revivals Survivals and Change written by Keith Howard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shaman s Wages

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  • Author : Kyoim Yun
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2019-09-30
  • ISBN : 0295745967
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book The Shaman s Wages written by Kyoim Yun and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman’s Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary shamans on Cheju Island off the peninsula’s southwest coast. In this engaging ethnography enriched by extensive historical research, Kyoim Yun explores the prevalent and persistent ambivalence toward practitioners, whose services have long been sought out yet derided as wasteful by anti-shaman commentators and occasionally by their clients. Intrigued by discord between simbang and their clients over fee negotiations, Yun set out to learn the deep-rooted legacy of condemning or trivializing the practitioners’ self-interests, from a neo-Confucian governor’s purge of shrines during the Chosŏn dynasty to the recent transformation of a community ritual into a practice recognized through UNESCO World Heritage status. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand observations, she shows how simbang distinguish ritual exchanges from more mundane instances of bartering, purchasing, bribing, and gift giving and explains why ritual affairs are nonetheless inevitably thorny. This original study illuminates the intertwining of religion and economy in shamanic practice on Cheju Island.

Book Spirit Power

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  • Author : Heonik Kwon
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2022-08-02
  • ISBN : 0823299937
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Spirit Power written by Heonik Kwon and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea’s shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea’s enduring shamanism tradition.