book chapter
Village life in Korea
M.E. Church • Nashville • Published In 1911 • Pages:
By: Moose, J. Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Moose spent ten years among Korean as an active missionary. His study is based upon observations of village life in Korea made during that period. This work is characterized by first-hand information in most instances. The central theme is that of the village as the unit of social organization. Following brief geographical and historical sketches, Moose presents a general discussion of the village and typical settlement patterns. He then examines in sequence the various institutionalized roles the integration of which constitutes the social system of the village. The text clearly demonstrates the integral organization of social class and sex with legal, educational, and occupational systems in the typical village. Religion cuts across all these institutional relationships and operates as the main focus in the value system; in particular it functions to structure role relationships within the family. The system of recruitment of personnel and the position of privilege are shown to be the sources of much of the recurrent stress in the Korean social system. The book closes with a sketch, appraisal of the effects of Christianity upon Korea. This section contains six life-histories of converts to Christianity; these narratives suggest some hypotheses as to whom an alternative religious doctrine would first appeal in Korean society. Overall, this book is excellent
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Gender status
- Classes
- General character of religion
- Missions
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- RCH ; 1951; Stephen F. Borhegyi : 1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1899-1909
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1899-1909
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] J. Robert Moose
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans