Reciprocity Status And The Korean Shamanistic Ritual
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Kut
| Author | : Hyun-key Kim Hogarth |
| Publisher | : Akademiai Kiads |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In Korea shamanistic rituals, called Kut, are alive and well. This book is an attempt to unravel the mystery of this tradition's persistence in the rapidly industralizing Korea. Korean shamanism, called musok, reflects the centuries of Korean culture, society and its ethos. Kut is based on the principle underpinning all social interactions in Korean society, i.e. reciprocity.
Korean Shamanistic Rituals
| Author | : Jung Y. Lee |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-02-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110811375 |
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
The Shaman's Wages
| Author | : Kyoim Yun |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2019-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0295745967 |
Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman’s Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary shamans on Cheju Island off the peninsula’s southwest coast. In this engaging ethnography enriched by extensive historical research, Kyoim Yun explores the prevalent and persistent ambivalence toward practitioners, whose services have long been sought out yet derided as wasteful by anti-shaman commentators and occasionally by their clients. Intrigued by discord between simbang and their clients over fee negotiations, Yun set out to learn the deep-rooted legacy of condemning or trivializing the practitioners’ self-interests, from a neo-Confucian governor’s purge of shrines during the Chosŏn dynasty to the recent transformation of a community ritual into a practice recognized through UNESCO World Heritage status. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand observations, she shows how simbang distinguish ritual exchanges from more mundane instances of bartering, purchasing, bribing, and gift giving and explains why ritual affairs are nonetheless inevitably thorny. This original study illuminates the intertwining of religion and economy in shamanic practice on Cheju Island.
Korean Shamanism
| Author | : Chongho Kim |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2018-01-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351772147 |
Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of shamanism yet also, paradoxically, ensuring its survival throughout Korean history. This book examines the place of shamans within contemporary society as a cultural practice in which people make use of shamanic ritual and disputing the prevalent view that shamanism is 'popular culture', a 'women's religion' or 'performing arts'. Directly confronting the prejudice against shamans and their paradoxical situation in a modern society such as Korea, this book reveals the cultural discrepancy between two worlds in Korean culture, the ordinary world and the shamanic world, showing that these two worlds cannot be reconciled. This unique study of shamanism offers a significant contribution to growing studies in indigenous anthropology and indigenous religions, and provides a captivating read for a wide range of readers through retelling the stories-never-to-be-told involving shamanic ritual.
Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits
| Author | : Laurel Kendall |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1987-07-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780824811426 |
“This exceptionally well-written book is good reading, not only for specialists but also for beginning students interested in women, Korean culture, and shamanism.” —Journal of Asian Studies “Kendall maintains a closeness with and respect for her subject that keeps away the chill of academic distance and yet avoids sentimentality.” —Korean Quarterly, Spring 2001
Contemporary Korean Shamanism
| Author | : Liora Sarfati |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0253057183 |
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans—who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed—are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean shamanism are changing as shamanic traditions appear in staged rituals, museums, films, and television programs, as well as on the internet. Contemporary Korean Shamanism explores this vernacular religion and practice, which includes sensory rituals using laden altars, ecstatic dance, and animal sacrifice, within South Korea's hypertechnologized society, where over 200,000 shamans are listed in professional organizations. Liora Sarfati reveals how representations of shamanism in national, commercialized, and screen-mediated settings have transformed opinions of these religious practitioners and their rituals. Applying ethnography and folklore research, Contemporary Korean Shamanism maps this shift in perception about shamanism—from a sign of a backward, undeveloped Korea to a valuable, indigenous cultural asset.
Dancing in the Forest
| Author | : Helen Hong |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2022-11-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1666741477 |
Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the “othered” life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate the present with the past, life with death, the living with the ancestral spirits, and Confucian moral virtue with Protestant belief, and fill the geographical and collective mental gap in a life of transition. This book introduces Korean shamanism within the Protestant context of immigration in the United States, including an ethnography of Korean shamans in order to observe this landscape of not only conflictive but also ambivalent episodes through rituals and narratives of participants.
Korean Shamanist Ritual
| Author | : Daniel Kister |
| Publisher | : Jain Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0895818620 |
During his years of teaching literature and drama at Sogang University in Seoul, the author became attracted to Korean shamanist ritual, or kut, as a sophisticated form of drama that has power to transform the daily realities of participants lives into events of spiritual significance.Korean shamanism centers at least as much on the ritual dramatization of symbolic signs and on the communitys belief in these signs as on the person of the shaman, or mudang. Without intending to undermine the importance of the mudang, this study focuses on the public dramatization of these symbols. It investigates the dynamics by which kut transform ordinary realities into freeing, harmonizing, objectifying signs of contract with the gods and spirits, who are believed to make their presence known at significant moments of life.The author was one of the recipients of the award for excellence in shamanist research presented by the International Society for Shamanistic Research in 2004.
Hanyang Kut
| Author | : Maria K. Seo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2019-08-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000005437 |
This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea. Placed firmly in a social and historical context, it shows that Shamanism, considered superstition by many today, is alive and well in Seoul in a rich tradition reaching back to the Chosôn Dynasty (1392-1910), the capital of which was Hanyang (now Seoul). The instruments, dress and other accoutrements of courtly life from the Chosôn Dynasty have been taken up, although transformed, in contemporary rituals among spirit-possessed Shamans. Through a comparison of Hanyang kut - the rituals of the Hanyang Shamans - and the ritual practice of Inner Asian Shamans, and through an analysis of the relations of spirit-possession music rituals to musok, the indigenous religion of Korea, Seo sheds light on the role of music, spiritual practice and culture in present-day Korea.
