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Notes on some of the laws, customs, and superstitions of Korea

American anthropologist4Published In 1891 • Pages: 177-187 incomplete

By: Rockhill, William Woodville.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rockhill, as United States Chargé d'Affaires in 1886-87 jotted down a series of notes during his four month residence. This is an account of Korean culture presenting information on the following subjects: state, government activities, sanctions, justice, organized ceremonial, magic and feasting. As a general statement concerning Korean social organization, it is one of the best of its kind.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Culture summary
Visiting and hospitality
Luck and chance
Taxation and public income
Trial procedure
Sanctions
Magic
Organized ceremonial
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
article
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Government Official
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
ER ; Robert J. Smith ; 1950
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1886-1887
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] W. Woodville Rockhill
This document consists of excerpts
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
17015424
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Koreans