An Affair with Korea : Memories of South Korea in the 1960s
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0295806613
ISBN-13
9780295806617
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Imprint
University of Washington Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 3rd, 2015
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Product Classification:
MemoirsSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared.
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