Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion

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 transformatio...

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Main Author: Kendall, Laurel 1947- (Author)
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Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press 2009
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Further subjects:B Shamanism (Korea)
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B Shamanism / BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
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505 8 0 |a Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Shamanic Nostalgia -- -- 1. Shifting Intellectual Terrain: “Superstition” Becomes “Culture” and “Religion” -- -- 2. Memory Horizons: Kut from Two Ethnographic Presents -- -- 3. Initiating Performance: Chini’s Story -- -- 4. The Ambiguities of Becoming: Phony Shamans and What Are Mudang After All? -- -- 5. Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism -- -- 6. Of Hungry Ghosts and Other Matters of Consumption -- -- 7. Built Landscapes and Mobile Gods -- -- Conclusion -- -- Notes -- -- References -- -- Index and Glossary -- -- About the Author 
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