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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-03 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 282
Pages: 282
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of villa
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
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Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of shamanism yet
Language: en
Pages: 446
Pages: 446
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: 지문당
Language: en
Pages: 251
Pages: 251
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:
This study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the nece