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- catalog abstract "This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity, romantic love, women's work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies--Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing couples, matchmakers, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women's magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b9052545.
- catalog coverage "Korea Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. Why Study Weddings? A Confessional Introduction -- 2. A Wedding in Righteous Town -- 3. A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents -- 4. Transformations: The Construction of Courtship in Twentieth-Century Korea -- 5. Requesting Marriage -- 6. Ceremonious Goods -- 7. Betrothal Gifts and "Bothersome Custom."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.".
- catalog description "This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity, romantic love, women's work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies--Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing couples, matchmakers, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women's magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520201981 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520202007 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Korea Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Korea.".
- catalog subject "392/.5/09519 20".
- catalog subject "Ceremonial exchange Korea.".
- catalog subject "GT2786.K6 K46 1996".
- catalog subject "Gender identity Korea.".
- catalog subject "Marriage customs and rites Korea.".
- catalog subject "Sex role Korea.".
- catalog subject "Social classes Korea.".
- catalog subject "Wedding etiquette Korea.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Why Study Weddings? A Confessional Introduction -- 2. A Wedding in Righteous Town -- 3. A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents -- 4. Transformations: The Construction of Courtship in Twentieth-Century Korea -- 5. Requesting Marriage -- 6. Ceremonious Goods -- 7. Betrothal Gifts and "Bothersome Custom."".
- catalog title "Getting married in Korea : of gender, morality, and modernity / Laurel Kendall.".
- catalog type "text".