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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea - Ancient to Contemporary Times (Paperback)
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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea - Ancient to Contemporary Times (Paperback)
Series: Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
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Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us
much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While
biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not
quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the
influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater
than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach
in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and
contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors
from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology,
history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a
number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of
remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first
two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the
dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668–935) to
the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods,
cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryo (918–1392) and
the twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a
consideration of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an
inseparable part of Korean mortuary customs since premodern times.
Chapters address the need to appease the dead both in shamanic and
Confucians contexts. The final section of the book examines the
treatment of the dead and how the state of death has been
perceived. Ghost stories provide important insight into how death
was interpreted by common people in the Koryo and Choson
(1392–1910) while nonconformist narratives of death such as the
seventeenth-century romantic novel Kuunmong point to a clear
conflict between Buddhist thought and practice and official
Neo-Confucian doctrine. Keeping with unendorsed views on death, the
final chapter explores how death and the afterlife were understood
by early Korean Catholics of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea fills a
significant gap in studies on Korean society and culture as well as
on East Asian mortuary practices. By approaching its topic from a
variety of disciplines and extending its historical reach to cover
both premodern and modern Korea, it is an important resource for
scholars and students in a variety of fields.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Hawai‘i Studies on Korea |
Release date: |
February 2018 |
Editors: |
Charlotte Horlyck
• Michael J. Pettid
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Series editors: |
Min-Sun Kim
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-7676-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8248-7676-8 |
Barcode: |
9780824876760 |
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