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The Shamanic Ritual Specialists in the East Coast of Korea;An Hereditary or Shamanic Ritual Tradition? |
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| Creator | Hyunkyung JEONG |
| Title | 1. The Shamanic Ritual Specialists in the East Coast of Korea 2. An Hereditary or Shamanic Ritual Tradition? |
| Publisher | Faculty of International Studies, Prince of Songkla University |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Journal Title | Journal of International Studies, Prince of Songkla University |
| Journal Vol. | 4 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 90-116 |
| Keyword | Ritual specialist, hereditary shaman (seseub-mudang), religious figure, mudang (shaman and shamaness), East Coast, byeolsin-gut (shamanistic ritual), Korea |
| URL Website | http://jis.fis.psu.ac.th/index.php/en/ |
| ISSN | 2228-8864 |
| Abstract | As Korean folk beliefs have been little studied in academic literature, Korean ritual specialists, or shamen, are also not well- known. Therefore, it was necessary to do an ethnographic study in a village to figure out how they work. Based on a field observation conducted in 2007, a specific ritual tradition in East coast of the Korean peninsula has been studied. The observation has been carried out at certain villages in North Gyeongsang which have kept a shamanic ritual for the fishermen's welfare in their villages. The ritual was performed by a troop of Seseubmudang, hereditary shamans. An ethnographic approach is adopted to study the function of "hereditary" shamans and how they communicate with divinity even in their "normal" state. This article presents one of the East Coast ceremonies called byeolsin-gut through which this type of shaman can play an intermediary role for the benefit of the villagers. |
