{"product_id":"getting-married-in-korea-of-gender-morality-and-modernity-paperback","title":"Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurel Kendall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKendall 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 both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, 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. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write \"Korea\" in a complex and ever changing social milieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is and is not about Korean weddings. It explores the meaning and importance of getting married in late-twentieth-century Korea, but it is also concerned with weddings as flash points of argument about the past and the present, about the desirability of women and men, and about what it means to be Korean in a shifting and intensely commodified milieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurel Kendall\u003c\/b\u003e is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eShamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 269\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.92 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52735768592691,"sku":"9780520202009","price":64.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RlV6VFdTTE1OdHY1ektKUWxGeEVhUT09.webp?v=1763996385","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/getting-married-in-korea-of-gender-morality-and-modernity-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}