Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion 9780824860899

Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and

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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shamanic Nostalgia
1. Shifting Intellectual Terrain: “Superstition” Becomes “Culture” and “Religion”
2. Memory Horizons: Kut from Two Ethnographic Presents
3. Initiating Performance: Chini’s Story
4. The Ambiguities of Becoming: Phony Shamans and What Are Mudang After All?
5. Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism
6. Of Hungry Ghosts and Other Matters of Consumption
7. Built Landscapes and Mobile Gods
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index and Glossary
About the Author

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