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Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF : South Korean popular religion in motion / Laurel Kendall

Author
Kendall, Laurel
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xxviii, 251 pages : illustrations maps ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction: Shamanic nostalgia -- Shifting intellectual terrain : "superstition" becomes "culture" and "religion" -- Memory horizons : kut from two ethnographic presents -- Initiating performance : Chini's story -- The ambiguities of becoming : phony shamans and what are mudang after all? -- Korean shamans and the spirits of capitalism -- Of hungry ghosts and other matters of consumption -- Built landscapes and mobile gods -- Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780824833435 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824833430 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824833985 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824833988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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