Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF : South Korean popular religion in motion /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kendall, Laurel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2009.
©2009
Subjects:
Shamanism > Korea.
Chamanisme > Corée.
RELIGION > Eastern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Civilization > Shamanistic influences.
Religion.
Shamanism.
Schamanin
Schamanismus
Schamanismus.
Volksglaube.
Korea > Religion.
Korea > Civilization > Shamanistic influences.
Corée > Civilisation > Influence chamanique.
Korea.
Südkorea
Südkorea.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Shifting intellectual terrain: superstition becomes culture and religion
  • Memory horizons: kut from two ethnographic presents
  • Initiating performance: Chini's story
  • The ambiguities of becoming: phony shamans and what are mudang after all?
  • Korean shamans and the spirits of capitalism
  • Of hungry ghosts and other matters of consumption
  • Built landscapes and mobile gods.

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