essay
Consanguineous group and its function in the Korean community
Families in East and West : socialization process and kinship ties • The Hague • Published In 1970 • Pages: 338-347
By: Lee, Mangap.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a description of the organization and activities of rural Korean consanguineous groups (MUNJUNG), which the author defines as 'the aggregation of offspring under the same ancestors over the four generations.' These descendents share ritual obligations: an annual memorial service to each ancestor on the day of their death (KIJESA) and a tribute to all ancestors twice a year on January 1st and August 15th (CHAREJESA). The formal organization of the consanguineous group (JONGHOE) has a leader (MUNJANG) and general manager (YUSA), and meets once a year at an assembly place (JESIL) to discuss i) memorial services, ii) management of the group's land (WITO), iii) financial problems, iv) maintenance of the JESIL and v) staff appointments. WITO land is donated by group members to support the grave attendants (MYOJIK). A SOWON is a learning institute where a more illustrious ancestor is apotheosized. Consanguineous groups were the typical organization of the YANGBAN landlord class whose tennats (SANGMIN) were too poor to organize themselves in such a fashion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Classes
- Household
- Lineages
- Clans
- 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
- essay
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1392-1970
- 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
- Mangap Lee
- 'Sponsored jointly by the Japan Sociological Society, the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, and the International Sociological Association.'
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76122526
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans