Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF : : South Korean Popular Religion in Motion / / 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 tra...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Shamanic Nostalgia
- 1. Shifting Intellectual Terrain: "Superstition" Becomes "Culture" and "Religion"
- 2. Memory Horizons: Kut from Two Ethnographic Presents
- 3. Initiating Performance: Chini's Story
- 4. The Ambiguities of Becoming: Phony Shamans and What Are Mudang After All?
- 5. Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism
- 6. Of Hungry Ghosts and Other Matters of Consumption
- 7. Built Landscapes and Mobile Gods
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index and Glossary
- About the Author