Invented Traditions in North and South Korea /

Invented Traditions in North and South Korea / / ed. by Codruța Sîntionean, Andrew David Jackson, CedarBough Saeji, Remco Breuker.

Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly co...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Don,
Breuker, Remco,
Creutzenberg, Jan,
Howard, Keith,
Jackson, Andrew David,
Kendall, Laurel,
Kim, Eunseon,
Logie, Andrew,
Osetrova, Maria,
Saeji, CedarBough,
Schirmer, Andreas,
Sîntionean, Codruța,
Winstanley-Chesters, Robert,
HerausgeberIn:
Breuker, Remco,
Jackson, Andrew David,
Saeji, CedarBough,
Sîntionean, Codruța,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Hawai'i Studies on Korea
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • Invented Traditions in Korea—Contention and Internationalization
  • PART I REIMAGINING TRADITION: HISTORY AND RELIGION
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan’gi kosa
  • Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory
  • Chapter 3 Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan’gun, and the Earth Goddess
  • Part II Rewriting tradition: language
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 The Language of the “Nation of Propriety in the East” (東方禮儀之國)? The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness
  • Chapter 5 Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage
  • Part III Consuming and Performing tradition: music, food, and Crafts
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 6 Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between
  • Chapter 7 Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres
  • Chapter 8 Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition
  • Chapter 9 The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK
  • Part IV embodying tradition: spaces
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 10 Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee
  • Chapter 11 Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions
  • Contributors
  • Index

Similar Items