Book
Korea and her neighbors
Fleming H. Revell Company • New York • Published In 1898 • Pages:
By: Bishop, Isabella Bird.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mrs. Bishop made two journeys into Korea between the years 1894 and 1897, the first expedition consisting of travel by sampan over the northern and southern branches of the Han River. According to the author, she is the first to report on the southern branch of the Han River and its environs. Her second trip consisted of a journey over the main roads from Seoul to Tokch'on. Because of the political situation she was forced to leave Korea for a period of time. Her account of traveling through parts of China, Mukden, Japan and Siberia have been omitted. An important chapter on Korean settlers in Siberia has been included because of the excellent coverage of material on colonization and acculturation. This work is one of the few accounts which is based on actual field work in Korea. It contains many pertinent observations and good objective reporting on such subjects as marriage, burial customs, demonism and shamanism, intimate portrayals of both the King and Queen of Korea with whom Mrs. Bishop had several audiences, and significant political changes which were occurring in Korea during her journeys.
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- Robert J. Smith ; 1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1894-1897
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1894-1897
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Isabella Bird Bishop
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans