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Under the ancestors' eyes : kinship, status, and locality in premodern Korea / Martina Deuchler.

By: Deuchler, Martina, 1935- 1935- [author.]
Series: : 378Publisher: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015Description: xviii, 609 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674504301Subject(s): Elite (Social sciences) -- Korea -- History | Social structure -- Korea -- History | Confucianism and state -- Korea -- History | Kinship -- Korea -- History | Neo-Confucianism -- Korea | Korea -- Social conditions -- 1392-1910 | Korea -- Civilization -- Confucian influencesDDC classification: 306.09519 LOC classification: HN730.5.Z9 | E425 2015
Contents:
Part I. Foundations -- The indigenous descent groups of Silla and Koryo -- Crisis of identity: new dynastic venture -- The challenge of Neo-Confucianism -- Part II. Rebuilding the countryside -- Repossessing the countryside: the formation of localized elite -- Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the social dimensions -- Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the economic -- Part III. Confucian learning and practice -- The Sajok elites as Confucian learners -- Ritual practice and the early formation of localized lineages -- Communal stratification and local-level leadership -- Part IV. Divisions and bonding -- Center and periphery: divorce of interests -- The maturation of the lineage system: identity and locality -- Learning and politics: orthodoxy contested -- Part V. Survival in a changing world -- Transformation within stability: sustain -- The end of Sajok supremacy?
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Asia Korea HN730.5.Z9 E425 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 111980
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-579) and index.

Part I. Foundations -- The indigenous descent groups of Silla and Koryo -- Crisis of identity: new dynastic venture -- The challenge of Neo-Confucianism -- Part II. Rebuilding the countryside -- Repossessing the countryside: the formation of localized elite -- Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the social dimensions -- Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the economic -- Part III. Confucian learning and practice -- The Sajok elites as Confucian learners -- Ritual practice and the early formation of localized lineages -- Communal stratification and local-level leadership -- Part IV. Divisions and bonding -- Center and periphery: divorce of interests -- The maturation of the lineage system: identity and locality -- Learning and politics: orthodoxy contested -- Part V. Survival in a changing world -- Transformation within stability: sustain -- The end of Sajok supremacy?

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