Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF
Subtitle: South Korean popular religion in motion
By: Laurel Kendall.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780824833435; 9780824833985
Subjects: Shamanism -- Korea; Korea -- Religion; Korea -- Civilization -- Shamanistic influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Shifting intellectual terrain : superstition becomes culture and religion; title: Memory horizons : kut from two ethnographic presents; title: Initiating performance : Chini's story; title: The ambiguities of becoming : phony shamans and what are mudang after all?; title: Korean shamans and the spirits of capitalism; title: Of hungry ghosts and other matters of consumption; title: Built landscapes and mobile gods; title: Conclusion.