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Between Family, Nation, and Scholarship: Negotiating Ancestral Origins in Post-1945 South Korea

“…3 Furthermore, due to their potential to create alternative regimes of historical knowledge, memory collectives like the family can also challenge the knowledge originating from other sources including the academic establishment, thereby upsetting perceived dichotomies between the private and the public as well as the amateur and the professional. 4 As potent social frameworks of historical knowledge, families can thus reveal an epistemological pluralism that lies underneath and beyond narratives of the nation. 5 This article investigates how families in contemporary South Korea have been the driving force of alternative historical knowledge and how they have interacted and conflicted with other sources of knowledge.…”