An Anthropological Research of the Yangban in the Seoul Metropolitan Region, Korea and Their Cultural Dynamics

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20820069
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: OTA Shimpei National Museum of Ethnology, 研究戦略センター, 助教 (40469622)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / エリートネス / 旧慣調査 / 正統性 / 伝統 / 士族層 / 威信

Research Abstract

This research clarified how the prestige of yangban has been established since Yi Dynasty Era, verifying a case of scholar-bureaucrat family in their traditional home place in Seoul Metropolitan Region. The requirements for this family to establish their prestige has been consistent: consanguinity, success and knowledge. It is concluded that to complete the three requirements has been the fundamental model of the case-studied family to establish their prestige regardless of how the social institutions might shift.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 血と職と-韓国・朝鮮の士族アイデンティティとその近代的変容について (2009)
  • Author(s): 太田心平
  • Journal Title: 国立民族学博物館研究報告 34巻2号 Pages: 229-270
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 女性化した男性たち-ソウル近郊の士族女性たちが見た近代の村落秩序とエリート像 (2009)
  • Author(s): 太田心平
  • Organizer: 国立民族学博物館平成20年度機関研究「東アジアの村落社会における「近代」の再考」国際ワークショップ「東アジアの村落社会が見た「近代」-地域の有力者層への着目から」
  • Place of Presentation: 国立民族学博物館
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-22
• [Presentation] 'Doing Anthropology' of Korea in Contemporary Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): OTA Shimpei
  • Organizer: 50th Anniversary International Meeting of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology "Culture and Anthropology in the Age of Super-Competition"
  • Place of Presentation: Seoul National University
  • Year and Date: 2008-11-14
• [Book] 50th Anniversary International Meeting of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology "Culture and Anthropology in the Age of Super-Competition"('Doing Anthropology' of Korea in Contemporary Japan) (2008)
  • Author(s): OTA Shimpei
  • Total Pages: 7
• [Book] 〓〓〓 〓〓(両班の誕生)
  • Author(s): OTA Shimpei
  • Total Pages: 228
  • Publisher: (印刷中)
• [Remarks] 太田心平、伝統のなかで眠れる幸せ、毎日新聞(関西版)2010年8月11日、2010、1
• [Remarks] 太田心平、エリートは語ることができないか、月刊みんぱく、34巻7号、2010、2
• [Remarks] 太田心平、酒宴で開く別の時間への扉、毎日新聞(関西版)2010年2月10日、2010、1
• [Remarks] 太田心平、両班異伝--韓国・朝鮮の創られた旧慣と旧在京士族層の歴史的現在、民博通信、121号、2