Rae-Ok Choi
Hanyang University
研究室紹介
Professor Rae-Ok Choi's research lab specializes in the intersection of Korean traditional religion, folklore, and socio-economic structures. The lab investigates how religious practices—particularly shamanic rituals and village god beliefs—reflect and shape economic relationships and social cohesion in Korean communities. Through ethnographic and comparative analysis of regional performances and belief systems, the lab explores the performative and material dimensions of religious practice as a form of cultural and economic exchange.
Research Overview
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Selected Papers
61. The Purpose of this reserch may be summerized as follows: Through collective reserch and analysis of Korean Shaman play 12 parts of Seoul area and Kyunggido province, also domestic god belief and village god belief in view point of the economic relationship, I seek to elucidate several characters as religious deed based on economic thoughts. For the performancce of Shaman plays, they who want to be healthy in ordinary life, to heal disease of sick man and to solve their faced troublesome thin