Title Getting married in Korea ; of gender, morality, and modernity / Laurel Kendall

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description xiii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 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" Analysis Korea Marriage Social customs Notes Bibliography: p231-248. - Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index Subject Ceremonial exchange -- Korea. Gender identity -- Korea. Courtship -- Korea. Marriage customs and rites -- Korea. Sex role -- Korea. Social classes -- Korea. Wedding etiquette -- Korea. SUBJECT Korea -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073053 Korea -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92003077 LC no. 95037353 ISBN 0520201981 (alk. paper) 0520202007 (paperback: alk. paper)

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