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

by Laurel Kendall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833988
• ISBN13: 9780824833985
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"