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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF : South Korean Popular Religion in Motion /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kendall, Laurel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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