Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF-行业好书-社会科学-太极之巅书单号

书刊介绍

内容简介

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 can be found thriving in the high-rise cities of South Korea, 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.

作品目录

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
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作者简介

Laurel Kendall is Curator in Charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and also teaches at Columbia University.