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Article: Avant-Garde Shaman in Post-Modern World.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2000
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According to a stereotypical view which is at least a hundred years old, mudang, the shamans of Korea, are the illiterate representatives of a decaying folk religion riddled with superstition, which is bound to disappear once universal literacy, modern civilization and industrialization gain the upper hand.
When I tell people that I study shamanism they often automatically assume that I spend most of my time in the remote countryside where this archaic creed ``still survives.'' In reality, however, Korean shamans have successfully adapted to modern, urban society and the researcher of shamanism hardly has any need to leave the urban sprawl of Seoul and its ...
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