Laurel Kendall

Gebundenes Buch

Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF

South Korean Popular Religion in Motion

Beschreibung

Presents a study of contemporary Korean shamanism. This book describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing.

Autor

Laurel Kendall is Curator in Charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and also teaches at Columbia University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780824833435
• ISBN-10: 0824833430
• Artikelnr.: 26207313