Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea

Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea
ISBN-10
0674504305
ISBN-13
9780674504301
Category
Confucianism and state
Pages
725
Language
English
Published
2015-01-06
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Martina Deuchler

Description

"Under the Ancestors Eyes" elucidates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device by which the elite in Korea regained and maintained dominance during the Chos n period. Using historical and social anthropological methodology, Martina Deuchler highlights Korea s distinctive elevation of the social over the political."

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