Land Is Thicker than Blood

Revisiting "Kinship Paternalism" in a Peasant Village in South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3018800
AutoresSoo Ho Choi (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen56
Número3
Páginas349-363
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/jar.56.3.3631088
OpenAlexW320043833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas19

Kinship reciprocity does not necessarily inhibit the development of class resentment between poor and wealthy kin. The data collected from a peasant village in North Cholla province in Korea demonstrate how the frantic pace of capitalistic development since the late 1960s has changed the economic foundation of kinship. On the one hand, favorable economic changes have enabled some poor peasants to liberate themselves from the yoke of unequal relationships symbolically disguised as "kinship paternalism." These peasants have ingeniously adapted to macroeconomic changes to become independent. On the other hand, massive rural migration to the cities created a setting wherein wealthy kin fostered young poor kin who were raised to be effective laborers. As the fostered kin's social space was completely monitored by the wealthy foster kin, the former could not utilize changing economic conditions to their advantage. The dramatic agrarian transformation has provided an opportunity to see the true nature of hegemonic and antihegemonic relationships between kin

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Kinship · Paternalism · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy