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:
Download or read book Korean Shamanism written by Chongho Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of shamanism yet also, paradoxically, ensuring its survival throughout Korean history. This book examines the place of shamans within contemporary society as a cultural practice in which people make use of shamanic ritual and disputing the prevalent view that shamanism is 'popular culture', a 'women's religion' or 'performing arts'. Directly confronting the prejudice against shamans and their paradoxical situation in a modern society such as Korea, this book reveals the cultural discrepancy between two worlds in Korean culture, the ordinary world and the shamanic world, showing that these two worlds cannot be reconciled. This unique study of shamanism offers a significant contribution to growing studies in indigenous anthropology and indigenous religions, and provides a captivating read for a wide range of readers through retelling the stories-never-to-be-told involving shamanic ritual.
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:
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.
Download or read book Dancing in the Forest written by Helen Hong and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the “othered” life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate the present with the past, life with death, the living with the ancestral spirits, and Confucian moral virtue with Protestant belief, and fill the geographical and collective mental gap in a life of transition. This book introduces Korean shamanism within the Protestant context of immigration in the United States, including an ethnography of Korean shamans in order to observe this landscape of not only conflictive but also ambivalent episodes through rituals and narratives of participants.
Download or read book Culture of Korean Shamanism written by Shin-Yong Chun and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Competence of Korean Shamans as Performers of Folklore written by Chungmoo Choi and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shamans Nostalgias and the IMF written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Korean Shamanism written by Kyung Sun Hong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents an ethnographic study of Korean shamanism, particularly focusing on the shamanic practice in the East Coast of the U.S. The text draws on fieldwork undertaken over a period of eight years, from 2004 to 2011, and in particular on new qualitative data from extensive interviews and observations focusing on three primary shaman informants, and some fifteen clients of the informants. In order to present a comprehensive understanding of this transnational practice, this study also includes a brief history relative to various cultural influences on Korean shamanic practice, including a charismatic Christian ritual which illustrates the location of the cross-cultural practice of Korean shamanism in a particular diasporic context. Considering that little research has been done on the global practice of Korean shamanism derived from the process of transmigration, this present study introduces a new approach as a comparative study. With an emphasis on the importance of the changing forms and trajectories of diasporic practices, this dissertation examines how the diasporic shamans access meaning in their localized practices in a culturally non-conventional context. Further, by engaging the process of globalization, this study also involves the particularity of the predominantly Christianized Korean diasporic community as the current context of diasporic shamanic practice in the U.S. If "newness" may be identified by the notion of "different, albeit converging" with traditional practice as Peter Clarke indicates, Korean diasporic shamanism in the U.S. is itself evolving toward a new form of religion. The trace of something new observed in the practice of Korean diasporic shamanism, including new deities and summary rituals, is identified with a contextualized induction that is affected by the individual shaman's encounter with the new cultural environment supplied by geographical relocation. In this, the "new" practice of Korean shamanism may be understood by the probative analysis as a "negotiation" with its non-traditional cultural context in a diasporic context. Overall, my study seeks to contribute to the larger understanding of shamanic adaptation to a new cultural context, partaking in the dialogue not only with the diasporic diversity in the immigrant society but also with the shared experiences in the integrative global community.
Download or read book The Cultural Paradox of Korean Shamanism written by Chong-Ho Kim and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Thought written by Shin-Yong Chun and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Download or read book Be com ing Korean in the United States Exploring Ethnic Identity Formation Through Cultural Practices written by Sung Youn Sonya Gwak and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 328 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.
Download or read book Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity written by Hyung Il Pai and published by Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
