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This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issuesidentity, romantic love, women’s work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremoniesLaurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century.
Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.
Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.
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Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Her previous books includeShamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life (1985) andThe Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales (1988).
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- EditoreUniv of California Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1996
- ISBN 10 0520201981
- ISBN 13 9780520201989
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine259
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Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
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ISBN 13: 9780520201989
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. no dj, some wear, still nice! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized. Codice articolo 0520201981-01
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