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Peace Corps volunteers and the making of Korean studies in the United States
From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number of them returned to the United States and entered academia, forming the core of a second wave of Korean studies scholars. How did thei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington
University of Washington Press
2020
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| Colección: | Center for Korea Studies publications
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Kwangju, trauma, and the problem of objectivity in history-writing / Don Baker
- How the Peace Corps changed our lives / Edward J. Baker
- On being part of the Peace Corps generation in Korean studies / Donald N. Clark
- A road less traveled: from Rome to Seoul via the Peace Corps / Carter J. Eckert
- Serendipity, Uyon, and Inyon / Bruce Fulton
- Did women have a Peace Corps-Korea experience? / Laurel Kendall
- At the border: women, anthropology, and North Korea / Linda Lewis
- Empathy, politics, and historical imagination: a Peace Corps experience and its aftermath / Michael Robinson
- Peace Corps-Korea group K-1: empowering to serve as new voices in Korean studies / Edward J. Shultz
- A Korean perspective: Peace Corps volunteers, Europe, and the study of Korea / Okpyo Moon
- Cultural immersion, imperialism, and the academy: an outsider's look at Peace Corps volunteers' contribution to Korean studies / Clark W. Sorensen