Book
Kinship system in Korea
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 1975 • Pages: 2v. (v, 321 leaves)
By: Yi, Kwang-gyu.
Abstract
This is a fairly comprehensive treatment of the Korean kinship system based on eight years of fieldwork in fifty different communities. Yi discusses marriage, mourning grades, ancestor worship, family succession, and descent groups. He also discusses how urbanization and modernization have changed the kinship system. Part II includes an extensive description of Korean kinship terminology.
- Subjects
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Rule of descent
- Lineages
- Clans
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- culture
- Korea
- HRAF PubDate
- 1998
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field Date
- 1967-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1958-1973
- Coverage Place
- Republic of Korea
- Notes
- by Kwang-Kyu Lee [i.e. K. Yi]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303)
- LCCN
- 76368464
- LCSH
- Koreans