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Physical basis for Korean boundaries
Far Eastern quarterly • 5 • Published In 1946 • Pages: 272-288
By: McCune, Shannon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this summary description of Korean boundaries, McCune devotes himself to both the internal and external boundaries. The external (national) boundaries comprise the Yalu and Tumen rivers, the composite group of volcanoes known as Paektu-san, and the three seas which border the Korean peninsula. The most important internal boundaries covered by McCune are the provincial ones which are thirteen in number. Some consideration is given to boundaries for municipalities, counties, and towns.| Finally, McCune closes with an examination of the boundaries provided by the 38th parallel. He concludes that it was an arbitrary demarcation which has no topographical base whatsoever. He feels that since those now in existance are far from ideal, the future of boundaries in Korea depends on functioning rather physical character.| Two excellent maps of Korean provincial boundaries and a generalized cross-section along the 38th parallel are included in this summary and have been reproduced for the files.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Territorial hierarchy
- 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.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- ER ; 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] Shannon McCune
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans