[KS] Journal of Korean Studies Valume 21 Number 2

[Clark W Sorensen]

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the University of Washington Center for Korea Studies has completed its 8-year tenure editing the Journal of Korean Studies.  Our final issue titled “The Multi-Sited History of the Anthropology of Korea”  guest edited by Robert Oppenheim is now available digitally through Project Muse and in print through Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 

 

Here are a few of the details:

The Journal of Korean Studies  Volume 21, Number 2 (Fall 2016) Contents

THEMATIC ISSUE: THE MULTI-SITED HISTORY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF KOREA 

Guest Editor: Robert Oppenheim

 ARTICLES

 “Contextualizing Maurice Courant, Pioneer Of Korean Studies In Europe” by Jong-Pil  Yoon

“Visualizing Seoul’s Landscapes: Percival Lowell and the Cultural Biography of Ethnographic Images” by  Hyung Il Pai 

“Korea in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1850s–1945:  Between Orientalism and Revolutionary Solidarity” by Vladimir Tikhonov 

“So Close to the Canon, But . . . : Of Franz Boas, C. C. Vinton, and  Some Korean Things” by Laurel Kendall

 “Re-authenticating Race: Na Sejin and the Recycling of Colonial  Physical Anthropology In Postcolonial Korea” by Hoi-Eun Kim

“Imagining a Field Site: Preparing for Anthropological Fieldwork in South Korea in the Mid-1970s” by Clark W. Sorensen

BOOK REVIEWS 

Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 By Todd A. Henry, Reviewed By Erik Mobrand 

Korea’s Ancient Koguryŏ Kingdom: A Socio-Political History  By Noh Taedon, Translated By John Huston,  Reviewed By Stella Xu 

Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian  South Korea By Nicholas Harkness, Reviewed By Ivanna Yi 

South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad Edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kown, and  Sumie Okazaki, Reviewed By Michael Seth

When The Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea By Janet Poole,  Reviewed By John Whittier Treat


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Here is the link on Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35342


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