무당의 기도: 근대성과 저항

Abstract

In this paper, I explain the meaning of shamans’ praying practices in public spaces such as public parks and historic sites in terms of modernity and resistance. Shamans’ praying practices for themselves as well as clients in such spaces inevitably face the power of modernity, because the sites on which they pray have in most cases been constructed as a modern project. Previous research has shown that encounters between modernity and Korean shamanism resulted in the formation of various images of Korean shamanism on the level of official discourse. However, scholars have paid much less attention to how shaman agents have reacted to those discourses which embody modernity. By reference to James C. Scott’s resistance theory, I would like to interpret shaman’s praying practices in modern parks and historic sites as a form of “resistance” acting on a “hidden transcript.”