Approaching neighborhoods and marketplaces ethnographically: an anthropologist with Korean shopkeepers

Conférence du cycle Current Researches on Contemporary Asia de l’École Universitaire de Recherche (EUR) en Études sur l’Asie Orientale, UFR LCAO, Université Paris Cité

Antti Leppänen

Centre for East Asian Studies à l’Université de Turku (Finlande)

“Approaching neighborhoods and marketplaces ethnographically: an anthropologist with Korean shopkeepers”

Le 13 mai de 18h à 19h30
La conférence sera diffusée en ligne.

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Abstract:

This talk is based on my ethnographic fieldwork among Korean proprietors of small businesses – shopkeepers – in residential neighborhoods as well as marketplaces mostly in Seoul but also in its environs and some other locations in South Korea. I give an account of some of my main research findings in regards to neighborhood shopkeepers’ reciprocity and their sociocultural identity and the Korean culture of economy as evidenced in shopkeepers’ organizations, but the main frame of my talk is that of ethnography as a method of studying Korea. I discuss how I as an anthropologist have approached and conducted research with proprietors of small businesses over the years and consider what specific insights and analyses an ethnographer of Korea can provide.