The Assemblage of Korean Shamanism

The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. This book approaches that puzzle of mysterious duality using an interdisciplinary lens. Korean shamanism has been under continuous oppression and marginalization for a long time, and that circumstance has never dissipated. Shaman culture can be found in every corner of people's lives in contemporary Korea, but few acknowledge their indigenous beliefs with pride. This mysterious duality has deepened as the mediatization process of Korean shamanism has developed. Korean shamanism was revived as the dynamic of shamanic inheritance in the process, but these dynamics have also become the object of mockery. For this reason, any true understanding of Korean shamanism rests in how to unravel the unique puzzles of this mysterious duality. In this book, the duality is mapped out by playing with the puzzles surrounding the contextualization of Korean shamanism and mediatization.

1. Introduction: Puzzles of Contextualizing .- 2. Korean Shamanism and Mediatization.- 3. Deleuzian Approach to Dynamics of Shamanic Inheritance.- 4. Love and Hate Toward Korean Shamanism in Media.- 5. Cyber-Memorial Zones and Shamanic Inheritance in Korea.- 6. Commodifying Magic: Cyber-Shamans and the Neoliberalized Culture in Korea.- 7. Territorializing the Sacred: Celebrity Shamans in Korea.- 8. Between Multiple Worlds: Korean Shamans in Mixed Reality.