book chapter
The Koreans and their culture
The Ronald Press Company • New York • Published In 1951 • Pages:
By: Osgood, Cornelius.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is the first work on Korea by a professional ethnographer. Its five parts consist first of a study of a typical Korean farming village on the island of Kanghwa. The data on this village were recorded by observation and from local informants during the summer of 1947, with the assistance of two Korean students. In the second part the culture of the upper class is examined on the basis of information available in the extant literature (see category 113 for bibliographical references used). The third part, an outline of Korean political history, is based mainly on Hulbert's translation of the TONG KANG YO, a Korean summary of the four ancient histories of the country. Part four is an extesive culture summary resting upon the work of Hulbert and later sources. The fifth and final part, dealing with modern Korea and the events leading up to the war, is based upon personal observations, discussion with individuals directly involved, and an examination of the literature dealing with the contemporary period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Classes
- Dependencies
- Aftermath of combat
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- UNK ; Robert J. Smith ; 1951; LGD ; 2023
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947
- 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)
- Kanghwa Island, Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Cornelius Osgood
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes index and bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans