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Two Years of Encounters in Namwon, 1736-1737 : = Conflict Negotiation and the Configurations of Choson Village Society.

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Title/Author:	Two Years of Encounters in Namwon, 1736-1737 :/
Reminder of title:	Conflict Negotiation and the Configurations of Choson Village Society.
Author:	Lauer, Matthew Jason.
Description:	1 online resource (271 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Asian history. -
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ISBN:	9781369827293

Two Years of Encounters in Namwon, 1736-1737 : = Conflict Negotiation and the Configurations of Choson Village Society.
Lauer, Matthew Jason.

Two Years of Encounters in Namwon, 1736-1737 :Conflict Negotiation and the Configurations of Choson Village Society. - 1 online resource (271 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation engages two separate lines of inquiry simultaneously. The first of these involves a series of close readings of a text from the Namwǒn region in 1730s Chosǒn Korea (1392--1910) called the Collected Volume of Administrative Reports and Inter-agency Communications of Namwǒn County [K. Namwǒn-hyǒn ch'ǒppo imun sǒngch'aek]. Each of these close readings asks how specific aspects of society, politics, law, and culture in Chosǒn might be re-thought in light of the content of the cases---specifically, in light of the processes of negotiation that drove the unfolding of those cases. Each body chapter presents a stand-alone argument. Chapter 1 re-examines established understandings of the relationship between the state's ritual and legal codes. Previously, law was considered to play a supplementary or complementary role to ritual. In this case, however, an argument emerged concerning the possibility that legal codes might occasionally frustrate the execution of ritual. Chapter 2 examines the position of slaves in late-Chosǒn law. The analysis focuses on the Namwǒn magistrate's strategic use of rhetoric to resolve a lawsuit concerning a brutal assault on a slave. His intricate rhetorical strategy (one that contained many contradictory messages) reveals the complicated position of slaves in the legal system, which in turn allowed magistrates to develop such creative strategies if necessary. Chapter 3 argues for a re-evaluation of the position of Buddhist temple communities in the state corvee system. Though the state undoubtedly extracted from the Buddhists, at the same time the system itself created an interdependent relationship between the state and the temples, thus providing the Buddhists an opportunity to articulate their interests and problems. Chapter 4 examines a local conspiracy by several men to install a friend and distant relative as the head of the Local Elite Bureau and concludes that the group grossly miscalculated the degree to which local elite interests guarded that appointment process. Finally, Chapter 5 examines the nature of inter-magistrate relationships through the lens of the illicit movement of people. It concludes that disparities in rank played little role in determining negotiations between magistrates, that rank seems to have been "empty," merely a reflection of the scope of duties within local boundaries.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369827293Subjects--Topical Terms:

810327
Asian history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Two Years of Encounters in Namwon, 1736-1737 : = Conflict Negotiation and the Configurations of Choson Village Society.
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520 $a This dissertation engages two separate lines of inquiry simultaneously. The first of these involves a series of close readings of a text from the Namwǒn region in 1730s Chosǒn Korea (1392--1910) called the Collected Volume of Administrative Reports and Inter-agency Communications of Namwǒn County [K. Namwǒn-hyǒn ch'ǒppo imun sǒngch'aek]. Each of these close readings asks how specific aspects of society, politics, law, and culture in Chosǒn might be re-thought in light of the content of the cases---specifically, in light of the processes of negotiation that drove the unfolding of those cases. Each body chapter presents a stand-alone argument. Chapter 1 re-examines established understandings of the relationship between the state's ritual and legal codes. Previously, law was considered to play a supplementary or complementary role to ritual. In this case, however, an argument emerged concerning the possibility that legal codes might occasionally frustrate the execution of ritual. Chapter 2 examines the position of slaves in late-Chosǒn law. The analysis focuses on the Namwǒn magistrate's strategic use of rhetoric to resolve a lawsuit concerning a brutal assault on a slave. His intricate rhetorical strategy (one that contained many contradictory messages) reveals the complicated position of slaves in the legal system, which in turn allowed magistrates to develop such creative strategies if necessary. Chapter 3 argues for a re-evaluation of the position of Buddhist temple communities in the state corvee system. Though the state undoubtedly extracted from the Buddhists, at the same time the system itself created an interdependent relationship between the state and the temples, thus providing the Buddhists an opportunity to articulate their interests and problems. Chapter 4 examines a local conspiracy by several men to install a friend and distant relative as the head of the Local Elite Bureau and concludes that the group grossly miscalculated the degree to which local elite interests guarded that appointment process. Finally, Chapter 5 examines the nature of inter-magistrate relationships through the lens of the illicit movement of people. It concludes that disparities in rank played little role in determining negotiations between magistrates, that rank seems to have been "empty," merely a reflection of the scope of duties within local boundaries.
520 $a The second investigation concerns the scope of the power of magistrates in local society. Previous scholarship often portrays the 18th- and 19th-century magistrates as strongly empowered and exploitative---for these reasons, the misrule of magistrates formed a core grievance of Korea's noted 19th-century rebellions. However, the cases above show that the Namwǒn magistrate actually operated with variable levels of power. The degree to which the magistrate influenced local actors depended heavily on the institutions and interests implicated in his negotiations. None of this is to deny the reality that magistrates mistreated local populations during this period; however, the dissertation does argue that, when one moves from moments of dramatic action and resistance to moments of everyday life and negotiation, the power of magistrates seems much more variable and contingent, a fact that local populations recognized and knew how to exploit. In short, the dissertation proposes a gradated understanding of magistrate power.
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