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19 produkter
Getting Married in Korea
Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
Häftad, 1996
400 kr
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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 issues - identity, romantic love, women's work, marriage …
Vietnam
Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Av Van Huy Nguyen, Laurel Kendall
Häftad, 2003
656 kr
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"Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit" takes the reader on an informed and engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. Created to accompany the first major collaboration between a Vietnamese museum and an American museum on an exhibition of Vietnamese culture, …
Mediums and Magical Things
Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the …
Mediums and Magical Things
Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
Häftad, 2021
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315 kr
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Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the …
Museum at the End of the World
Encounters in the Russian Far East
Av Alexia Bloch, Laurel Kendall
Häftad, 2004
399 kr
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A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters …
Museum at the End of the World
Encounters in the Russian Far East
Av Alexia Bloch, Laurel Kendall
E-bok, 2016
504 kr
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A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters …
Shamans, Housewives and Other Restless Spirits
Women in Korean Ritual Life
Häftad, 1987
204 kr
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This exceptionally well-written book is good reading, not only for specialists but also for beginning students interested in women, Korean culture, and shamanism.
Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman
Of Tales and the Telling of Tales
Häftad, 1988
276 kr
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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
Häftad, 2009
272 kr
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Dharma
Av Alf Hiltebeitel, Laurel Kendall
Häftad, 2010
188 kr
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This introductory work proposes a fresh take on the ancient Indian concept dharma. By unfolding how, even in its developments as "law" and custom, dharma participates in nuanced and multifarious understandings of the term that play out in India’s great spiritual traditions, the book offers insights …
God Pictures in Korean Contexts
The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings
Av Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
323 kr
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Shamans depicted walking on knives, fairies shown riding on clouds, kings astride dragon mounts: some find such pictures unsettling, some charming. Pursued by collectors, venerated as the seats of gods, Korean shaman paintings are all of these things.Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon …
God Pictures in Korean Contexts
The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings
Av Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
639 kr
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Shamans depicted walking on knives, fairies shown riding on clouds, kings astride dragon mounts: some find such pictures unsettling, some charming. Pursued by collectors, venerated as the seats of gods, Korean shaman paintings are all of these things.Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon …
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Av Don Baker, Remco Breuker m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly …
Asian Visions of Authority
Religion and the Modern States of East and South East Asia
Av Charles F. Keyes, Charles F. Keyes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
453 kr
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Under Construction
The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea
Inbunden, 2001
593 kr
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Since the late 1960s, the lives of South Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalization. Class and gender identities have been modified in relation to a changing modernity and new …
Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
Inbunden, 2009
565 kr
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Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea's (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women's lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material …
Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity
Commodification, Tourism, and Performance
Av Yingjin Zhang, Laurel Kendall
Inbunden, 2010
539 kr
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