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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times (Hawai‘i Studies on Korea) by Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668–935) to the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods, cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryŏ (918–1392) and the twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a consideration of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an inseparable part of Korean mortuary customs sin

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Author

Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824840150

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Folklore