book chapter
The grass roof
Charles Scribner's Sons • New York • Published In 1931 • Pages:
By: Kang, Younghill.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Using upper class Korean family patterns as a background, Kang sketches in detail the development of a marginal person destined to become alienated from both the East and the West. An excellent life-history, this narrative presents the consequences of the acculturative process upon the individual. The only role for which Kang is fitted is that of pak-sa (literally, scholar of everything) and this role is no longer existant in Korea because of lack of cultural support. The narrative concentrates on family relationships, Kang's schooling in Korea and Japan, his participation in the Korean revolution and his determination to leave for America
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korea
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- UNK ; CWX ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Younghill Kang
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans