2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reading Village Features in the Documents of Kye Associations over the Past 100 Years
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24520905
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| Free Research Field |
文化人類学
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