Affair with Korea

Memories of South Korea in the 1960s

AvVincent S. R. Brandt

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp’o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp’o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt’s attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-02-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Center For Korea Studies Publications
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295993416

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Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont.

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"I can recommend this highly readable memoir without hesitation to anyone who would like to become immersed in the daily life of a pre-modern far-eastern society at a time when it was still largely pursuing its slow-paced ancient ways of life--and being able to do so through the eyes of a most engaging, perceptive and sympathetic witness."

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue ForevermoreAppendixNotesBibliography Index