2012
DOI: 10.1353/jkr.2012.0023
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Reconfiguration of Korean Shamanic Ritual: Negotiating Practices among Shamans, Clients, and Multiple Ideologies

Abstract: In this paper, I suggest that shamanic rituals should be understood as negotiating practices between shamans, clients, and competing ideologies rather than as expressing or conveying an unchanging essence or meaning. Here, the ritual space is assumed to be a ''matrix'' in which these practices occur and hence shamans can verify and reinforce their shamanship, which is constructed by the looping effects between academic discourses and shamans' selfidentity creation. Within the matrix, shamans make their rituals… Show more

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“…However, a shamanistic world view has not been regarded as helpful for mastering the challenges of a modern society. Today, although Shamanism is still popular (Kim, ) and the media have even reported a revival of Shamanism in Korea (Choe, ), most Koreans feel something of an aversion to Shamanism, perceiving it as something culturally backward. Though demonized through the Japanese occupancy and the introduction of Christianity (Oak, ; Rhi, ), it has survived and to some extent has influenced the mindset of the people.…”
Section: Towards a Complementary View Of Business Ethics In Koreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, a shamanistic world view has not been regarded as helpful for mastering the challenges of a modern society. Today, although Shamanism is still popular (Kim, ) and the media have even reported a revival of Shamanism in Korea (Choe, ), most Koreans feel something of an aversion to Shamanism, perceiving it as something culturally backward. Though demonized through the Japanese occupancy and the introduction of Christianity (Oak, ; Rhi, ), it has survived and to some extent has influenced the mindset of the people.…”
Section: Towards a Complementary View Of Business Ethics In Koreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Critical appraisals of the origins of Korean shamanism in relation to both cultural/geographic diffusion and reductive discourses of “ecstasy” or “trance” can be found in more recent anthropological studies (see S. Kim , ; T. Kim , ).…”
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confidence: 99%