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Songs of Seoul

Professor Nicholas Harkness' Book Awarded 2014 Edward Sapir Book Prize

December 10, 2014

Nicholas Harkness’s book, Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea  (University of California Press, 2014), has been awarded the Edward Sapir Book Prize by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (American Anthropological Association). The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Nicholas Harkness is Assistant Professor...

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Seong Uk Class

New Course ST 2015! Sages, Saint and Shamans; An Introduction to Korean Religions

December 9, 2014

New Course Spring 2015!
Sages, Saint and Shamans; An Introduction to Korean Religions
EAST ASIAN STUDIES 108 DR. SEONG-UK KIM
Harvard College/GSAS: 11441
Half Course (Spring 2015)
Class meets Tu., Th., 11:30 am - 1 pm

In this course, we will explore the histories, doctrines, rituals, and practices of the major religious traditions of Korea, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Shamanism. We will look at how these religions have interacted with each other, as well as the ways in which they have both influenced and been shaped by...

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