Kyoim Yun is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas. Shte served as guest editor for the special issue of Folklore Forum on Folklore of East Asia (Fall 2007) and has published articles on ritual, festival, tourism, heritage studies, and regional/national identity issues. She recently began new ethnographic fieldwork on the Temple Stay in the context of the prevailing therapeutic ethos in South Korea.
摘要
Cheju Island, a popular tourist destination off Korea's southern coast, has increasingly gained global attention due in large part to its recognition by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. As it is exposed to the outside world, so too is the image of the island as a shamanic enclave where the popular religion embodies the indigenous spirituality. The prevalent contemporary representation tends to perpetuate the image of the popular religion as a coherent tradition maintained solely by native shamans as symbolic celebrants indifferent to financial gain. This romantic portrayal betrays the on-the-ground reality of a vernacular religious market fraught with distrust of shamans' motivation and inter-shaman rivalry including that between migrant and established practitioners. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted on the island, this paper presents a more complex contour of the region's religious landscape. As when purchasing other goods and services, the laity chooses from a range of practitioners with a view to the perceived value of their investment, in this case ritual efficacy, and ritual practitioners make an effort to supply services suited to their clients' shifting demands by adopting innovative ritual skills. In addition, this paper closely examines monetary matters associated with individual rituals, pivotal to ritual practice and a potential source of the prevailing distrust of shamans.
目次
Abstract 53 Religious plurality on contemporary Cheju Island 54 Cheju simbang and mainland posal 55 Inter-shaman rivalry 55 A "Cheju" posal 56 Posal Kang's eclectic practice 56 Posal Kang's "Cheju" ritual 57 Business tactics 58 Buying economic security 60 Conclusion 62 Acknowledgements 62 Notes 62 References 63 Biographical Sketch 65
