Book
Reciprocity and Korean society: an ethnography of Hasami
Seoul National University Press • (6) • Published In 1984 • Pages: xviii, 232
By: Chŏn, Kyŏng-su.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Chun examines the various kinds of reciprocal exchanges which help to maintain egalitarian social relations in a small fishing and farming community on the island of Chindo, which is off the southwest coast of Korea. He looks at exchanges associated with weddings, ancestral rituals, kinship groups and voluntary associations. He also examines the exchanges between the village community and the more hierarchical ordered external society which includes merchant-buyers, government officials, and military and police officers. According to Chu, the exchanges between villagers and outsiders are not as balanced or diverse as they are in the village and tend to put villagers in a state of dependency. Although gifts to military and police officers may appear as bribes, their intended purpose is to establish a friendly relationship, so that the officers can recognize and accommodate villagers' interests. By extending credit to villagers, merchants and government cooperatives have shackled villagers with debt, which undermines their capacity to exchange with their fellow villagers. The book contains an extensive glosary and transcripts of two voluntary association meetings.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Insurance
- Mutual aid
- Cult of the dead
- Lineages
- Clans
- Political intrigue
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chindo Island, Republic of Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kyung-soo Chun
- Revision of author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Minnesota, 1982
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85118216
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans