Getting Married in Korea - Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity

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Sommario

Preface

1. Why Study Weddings? A Confessional Introduction

PART I CEREMONY
2. A Wedding in Righteous Town
3· A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents

PART II COURTSHIP
4· Transformations: The Construction of Courtship
in Twentieth-Century Korea
5. Requesting Marriage

PART III EXCHANGE
6. Ceremonious Goods
7· Betrothal Gifts and "Bothersome Custom"

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Her previous books include Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life (1985) and The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales (1988).

Riassunto

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. Focusing on many important issues, this work offers us a fresh appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laurel Kendall, Kendall Laurel
• Con la collaborazione di: Laurel Kendall (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.1996
• EAN: 9780520202009
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20200-9
• Pagine: 269
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Korea, REFERENCE / Weddings, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology: family & relationships, Weddings, wedding planners, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships