Book
Korean fishermen: ecological adaptation in three communities
Seoul National University Press • Seoul • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Han, Sang-bok.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a community study of a remote fishing village in South Korea and its comparison to other less remote fishing villages and rural farming villages. The study focusses on the organization of fishing and seaweed cultivation, and the allocation of its produce. Fishing villages lack strong lineages compared to farming villages, which the author argues is related to the difference between the two principal resources: sea and land. The sea is treated as commonly-held property where access is open to all who can afford a boat and equipment. The recruitment of crews is not necessarily based on kinship. In collecting seaweed (MIYOK), each household is assigned a collecting zone and labor is hired on a contractual basis for the season. Seaweed and seafood is sold to middlemen (KAEKCHU) who often establish patron-client relationships with sellers, offering them credit. Han concludes his study with recommendations for the development of the fishing industry.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Fishing
- Property system
- Real property
- Retail marketing
- Internal trade
- Cooperative organization
- Community structure
- 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
- 1968-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Republic of Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sang-Bok Han
- 'A publication of the Population and Development Studies Center, Seoul National University'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78100779
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans