호적으로 본 단성 합천이씨들의 공존과 배제 양상

Abstract

Blood ties and regionalism have served as two very important pillars sustaining the Korean society for a long time, and scholars concentrated their attention upon the so-called “same last-name villages,” which were villages populated by members of the patrilineal kin or with the same last name. Attempted in this article is a reconstruction of the Hapcheon Yi kinship members’ situation -through the Danseong region’s household register recordsin order to determine how members of this kinship group managed to coexist and interact with each other. The Hapcheon Yi kinship members first entered Danseong in the 15th century, and spreaded throughout the region. They continued to move around up until the 19th century, and diverged into many social classes. This kind of situation would not have allowed these same last-name villages abovementioned to naturally form. The most interesting case to note is the Mukgok-ri village which is known to have been a “same last-name village.” Members of the Hapcheon Yi kinship and the Gang’yang Yi house, who have been coexisting in the same Mukgok-ri village since the early 18th century, decided to finally merge their two houses’ regional titles(Bon’gwan) into one (“Hapcheon”), on the occasion of publishing the very first genealogy record for both of their houses in the 1760s. These two houses had not done so for a very long time, because the blood-relationship between the two houses was unclear at best, and they had no reason or opportunity to grow a sense of family. But they decided to do so at this point, while the other Hapcheon Yi kinship members who were residing in town of Danseong whose blood ties with other Hapcheon Yi kinship members in other areas within Danseong were more than clear, were actually excluded from the genealogy production altogether, since their social status was low. As we can see, since the late Joseon dynasty period through the early 20th century, the process of kinship groups or houses regrouping, or the formation of same last-name villages, were determined by a complicated social structure run by a number of variables such as blood ties, regionalism and social classes.