Spirits and Syncretism in Korean Myth
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 1161204 | KanopyPublisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016Description: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 minutes) : digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- computer
- online resource
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Features: Kathryn McClymond, Robert Andre LaFleur, Julius Bailey, Grant Voth
Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2015.
Early Koreans interacted with the spirit world through spirit mediums, primarily women, who perform shamanic rituals and preserve cultural knowledge even up to the modern day. These traditions incorporate religious, mythological, and scholarly borrowings from Japan and China into a distinctively Korean syncretic blend.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English