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Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.
Still one of the only book-length studies of rural, peasant Korean households,
Over the Mountains Are Mountains shows how the industrialization of Korea led neither to the proletarianization of the peasants nor to a fundamental change in the structure of rural families, but rather to strategic changes in patterns of migration, labor allocation, and residence.
List of contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Over the Mountains Are Mountains
2. Development without Structural Change in Sangongni Households
3. Development and the Influence of a Mountain Environment
4. Subsistence, Productivity, and Household Adaptation
5. Energy Flow and the Allocation of Household Labor
6. The Changing Family Cycle
7. Industrialization, Migration, and Land-Tenure Patterns
8. Organization, Structure, and the Explanation of Social Change
Appendix
Notes
Guide to Romanization
A Note on Weights and Measures
References
Index
About the author
Clark W. Sorensen is professor of international studies and anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he is also director of the Center for Korea Studies. He is the author of
Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press, 1988) and coeditor of
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy and Cultural Influence (Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington, 2011).
Summary
Presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups
