Affair With Korea - Memories of South Korea in the 1960s

Informationen zum Autor Vincent S. R. Brandt Klappentext Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont. Zusammenfassung In 1966 the author lived in Sokp'o! a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea! carrying out social anthropological research. This title presents an account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed! and that most of the villagers themselves despised. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism 3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Vincent S R Brandt, Vincent S. R. Brandt
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9780295993416
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99341-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Center for Korea Studies Publi; Center for Korea Studies Publications; Center for Korea Studies Publi; Center for Korea Studies PublicationsCenter for Korea Studies PublicationsCenter for Korea Studies PublicationsCenter for Korea Studies PublicationsCenter for Korea Studies PublicationsAn Affair with
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories