Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-7851-5 (ISBN)
Winner of Korean Education Minister’s Book Prize 2020
Gil-Soo Han is an Associate Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. His research interests span across sociologial studies of religion, health, ethnicity and media and he is a leader in the field of Korean Studies in Australasia. Gil-Soo's education in Korea, India and Australia has given him a unique, transnational understanding of the Korean diaspora in Australia, and his work on Korean migrants has always been accompanied by 'scholarly re-visits' to Korea as a Korea-born migrant himself and scholar now working in Australian universities. Gil-Soo has taught at the University of New England, the Monash University School of Rural Health and served as Head of Arts at the Monash University Sunway Campus in Malaysia. He has published more than 70 book chapters and journal articles, and 5 books including Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea (2016) and the co-edited volume, Minorities and Media (2017).
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Literature review and theoretical perspectives.- Chapter 3. Economic, social and familial shifts in contemporary South Korea.- Chapter 4. An analysis of four movies dealing with funeral rites in Korea.- Chapter 5. Funeral and media-saturated world: An analysis of advertisements.- Chapter 6. The rise, fraud and fall of funeral service conglomerates: topics and concerns in investigative journalism.- Chapter 7. Grassroots concerns: an analysis of service user's bulletins boards.- Chapter 8. Ossuary: social class in the afterlife.- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks.
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.07.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 231 p. 4 illus. |
Verlagsort | Singapore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 981-13-7851-7 / 9811378517 |
ISBN-13 | 978-981-13-7851-5 / 9789811378515 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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