[KS] Re: Han, kosaeng, etc.

[James K Freda]

Dear Jackie,
The Korean (or Korean-Japanese discourse on han, which sounds like a
wonderful topic), though tending to be overwhelmed by certain sorts of
essentialisms, is only part of a much larger trend "on the ground" and in
critical, scholarly or aesthetic production.
There is lots of work being done on violence, victim knowledges, social
suffering and structural injustice, the phenomenology or philosophy of pain,
etc.--especially in the field of medical anthropology and cultural
anthropology (for some current work see the journal Public Culture, for
example), much of which is highly generalizeable and useful for other
contexts. I cite a few leads or main sources, both on the general field of
social suffering and on han in my paper, which is published online in
Jouvert:
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/Jouvert/v3i12/

See especially the book edited by Arthur Kleinman et. al. titled Social
Suffering, for a variety of approaches in medical anthro. and philosophy.

Another student in Japan did an MA thesis on the subject which looks very
interesting though it is not "public domain" yet: Theressa Shim at Tsukuba
Univ. She is a participant on the list and should be accessible.

That should get you started. My piece is up and ready for viewing. Hope you
like it.

Jim Freda


jfreda at ucla.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: jackie kim <jackiejkim at hotmail.com>
To: <korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 7:46 PM


>I am currently a graduate student at Sophia University in Tokyo.  I am
>writing a master's dissertation on the first generation Korean immigrant
>women in Japan.  I have so far conducted life history interviews of some
>of these women from several prefectures.  As a central theme of my
>thesis I am planning to implement the Korean cultural terms of Han,
>go-saeng, hi-saeng and pal-cha.  I am in desperate need of some
>secondary sources in which I can refer to.  Can you help me?
>                                       Jackie J. Kim
>
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Jim Freda
jfreda at ucla.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: jackie kim <jackiejkim at hotmail.com>
To: <korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 7:46 PM


>I am currently a graduate student at Sophia University in Tokyo.  I am
>writing a master's dissertation on the first generation Korean immigrant
>women in Japan.  I have so far conducted life history interviews of some
>of these women from several prefectures.  As a central theme of my
>thesis I am planning to implement the Korean cultural terms of Han,
>go-saeng, hi-saeng and pal-cha.  I am in desperate need of some
>secondary sources in which I can refer to.  Can you help me?
>                                       Jackie J. Kim
>
>______________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com



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