The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) - Softcover

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Yun, Kyoim

 
9780295745954: The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0295745959 ISBN 13: 9780295745954
Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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 Chos¿n 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kyoim Yun is associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Kansas. She received her PhD in folklore from Indiana University in 2007. This is her first book.

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Verlag
University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0295745959
ISBN 13 
9780295745954
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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Sorensen Clark W
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