Korean Shamanistic Rituals
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Korean Shamanistic Rituals
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Author : Jung Y. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-02-19
Korean Shamanistic Rituals written by Jung Y. Lee and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Religion categories.
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.
Contemporary Korean Shamanism
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Author : Liora Sarfati
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Contemporary Korean Shamanism written by Liora Sarfati and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
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.
Korean Shamanism
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Author : Chongho Kim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Korean Shamanism written by Chongho Kim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Religion categories.
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
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Author : Laurel Kendall
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1987-07-01
Shamans Housewives And Other Restless Spirits written by Laurel Kendall and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-07-01 with Religion categories.
“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
Mu Ga
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Author : Sŏk-chae Im
language : en
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Release Date : 2003
Mu Ga written by Sŏk-chae Im and has been published by Jain Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This work is mainly comprised of a translation into English of four complete large-scale Korean Shaman ritual songs transcribed from tape recordings, which, until the present time, have remained either entirely untranslated, or, if otherwise, are only quoted in the form of brief excerpts in a few short articles. The song contents cover a broad regional spectrum which contain invaluablematerials related to Korean folklore, mythology, literature, history, and religion, and offer deep insight into a facet of Korean culture that has remained largely overlooked and unexplored.
Shamanism
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Author : R. W. L. Guisso
language : en
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Release Date : 1988
Shamanism written by R. W. L. Guisso and has been published by Jain Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Korea categories.
A series of psychological and anthropological studies about the oldest and the most fascinating religious tradition of Korea.
Kut Korean Shamanist Rituals
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Author : Halla Pai Huhm
language : en
Publisher: Weatherhill
Release Date : 1980
Kut Korean Shamanist Rituals written by Halla Pai Huhm and has been published by Weatherhill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Korean Shamanism is a fascinating subject, a source of Korean culture and arts over many millennia. This book is not, however, a study of Korean Shamanism, but rather limits itself to an attempt to study the dance rituals as performed in the Seoul area. The difference between Shamanistic dance and music, as compared with other folk dances of Korea, is explained here.
Hanyang Kut
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Author : Maria K. Seo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-21
Hanyang Kut written by Maria K. Seo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-21 with Social Science categories.
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.
Songs Of The Shaman
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Author : Boudewijn Walraven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1994
Songs Of The Shaman written by Boudewijn Walraven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The first book in the English language devoted to the study of Korean shaman songs, this book is essential reading for those with an interest in Korean shamanism, the literature and cultural history of Korea, and shamanism and oral literature in general. Shamanism, commonly regarded as the oldest religion in Korea, is still a force in the modern industrial society of today. Korean shamans, performing their rituals, sing and dance for the gods they worship as they have done for centuries.
Shamans Nostalgias And The Imf
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Author : Laurel Kendall
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Shamans Nostalgias And The Imf written by Laurel Kendall and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
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 transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.