essay
The social and psychological role of the Korean sorceress
[s.n.] • [s.l.] • No publication date • Pages:
By: Turner, Leonard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This excellent paper on the social and psychological role of the Mudang is based upon interviews with native-born Koreans, who resided in the Los Angeles area. Turner's thesis is that the Mudang 'represents an institutionalized outlet for the emotional expression of deviant and aberrant women with accompanying low social status.' An additional role is that 'the Mudang further represents an institutionalized outlet for the psychological relief of its participants without a concomitant change in social status.' The monograph contains a fine brief summary of socialization in Korea but omits any discussion of the functions that the Mudang fulfills in Korean society except by implication.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Sorcery
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- 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 ; Annemarie Holborn ; 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] Leonard Turner
- This document is an unpublished manuscript dated 1950 and it consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans