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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
Laurel Kendall
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Description for Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
Hardcover. Presents a study of contemporary Korean shamanism. This book 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. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JHMC; VXWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824833435
SKU
V9780824833435
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About Laurel Kendall
Laurel Kendall is Curator in Charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and also teaches at Columbia University.
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