Reading Village Features in the Documents of Kye Associations over the Past 100 Years

• Project/Area Number: 24520905
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: SHIMA Mutsuhiko 東北大学, 文学研究科, 名誉教授 (30115406)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / 韓国 / 農村 / 契組織 / 自然村概念 / 人口移動 / 身分関係 / 社会組織 / 身分制 / 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換 / 社会史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The village under consideration used to be two separate villages with residents of different socio-cultural strata 両班／常民. Present research tried to read the features of the village(s) over the past century in the documents of common-interest associations, called Kye 契, of the village(s).
Re-organization processes of eight associations have been traced. Detailed analysis of the documents have revealed the following: significance of geographical mobility of the residents on the organizations, relationships between the residents of the two former villages as well as belonging to different socio-cultural strata, and the process of integration into one village
The new findings call for reconsideration of several assumptions so far taken for granted in Korean studies: the concept of ‘natural village’ 自然村, geographical stability of rural population, and distinction between socio-cultural strata as manifested in daily village life.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 住民の移動と身分関係 － 契冊を通してみた村の動態100年（韓国語） (2014)
  • Author(s): 嶋 陸奥彦
  • Journal Title: 社会と歴史（韓国社会史学会） Volume: 104 Pages: 379-399
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 契冊を通してみる村の姿 (2014)
  • Author(s): 嶋 陸奥彦
  • Journal Title: 韓国朝鮮の文化と社会 Volume: 13 Pages: 122-141
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 音と文字の間 (2013)
  • Author(s): 嶋 陸奥彦
  • Journal Title: 韓国朝鮮の文化と社会 Volume: １２ Pages: 225-230
• [Journal Article] 台湾における韓国研究ワークショップ (2013)
  • Author(s): 嶋 陸奥彦
  • Journal Title: 韓国朝鮮の文化と社会 Volume: １２ Pages: 237-240
• [Presentation] 日本の文化人類学における韓国研究、津北大学における文化人類学および韓国研究 (2014)
  • Author(s): 嶋 陸奥彦
  • Organizer: 東北日韓交流フォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 東北大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-06
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Rethinking Korean Kinship (2012)
  • Author(s): Mutsuhiko SHIMA
  • Organizer: East Asian Anthropological Association
  • Place of Presentation: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• [Presentation] Korean Studies in Japan
  • Author(s): Mutsuhiko SHIMA
  • Organizer: Korean Studies from Cultural and Social Perspectives: Dialogues with Taiwanese Anthropologists
  • Place of Presentation: 台湾、精華大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 嶋陸奥彦
  • Author(s): 移動の視点で見る韓国社会
  • Organizer: 東京大学コリア・コロキュアム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学
  • Invited
• [Remarks] 東北大学 文学研究科 文化人類学研究室 嶋陸奥彦
  • URL: http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/anthropology/shima.html
• [Remarks] 東北大学文化人類学研究室嶋 陸奥彦
  • URL: http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/anthropology/shima.html