New Goddesses at Paektu Mountain: Two Contemporary Korean Myths

Winstanley-Chesters, Robert; Ten, Victoria

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“…Others have documented the heritage value of natural resources that are not associated with artifacts. These include flying fish in Barbados, West Indies (Cumberbatch, 2013); sacred trees, mountains, and water sources in Nigeria (Borokini, 2016); water resources in Bahrain (Rudolff & al Zekri, 2014); falcons in Mongolia (Soma, 2012); and Paektu, a volcanic mountain on the China-North Korea border, which is the spiritual home for Korean people (Winstanley-Chesters & Ten, 2016). See also Yoko Kugo's analysis of indigenous places, their meanings, and names in Alaska (chapter "Community Voices, Practices, and Memories in Environmental Communication: Iliamna Lake Yup'ik Place Names, Alaska" of this book), where she discusses why it is important in heritage environmental communication to use native names and landscape understandings.…”

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Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication

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2022

Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

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Indigenous people share ancient epistemological understandings of the world. These define for them what makes up the world, how forces influence these components, and why this all happens. These understandings are basic in that they frame human value orientations, call for individual and group action, and interpret natural and human events. Because epistemology involves ancient shared cultural understandings of the world, talking about the world involves cross-cultural communication, which is a special feature of anthropology. This chapter is an analysis of epistemological divides in cross-cultural communication about massive stone bridges. The divide is most clearly viewed when Native American cultural experts explain the meaning and purpose of stone bridges to Western science-trained National Park Service managers and geologists. To the former, the stone bridges are alive and were made at Creation as a place for World-balancing ceremonies and as portals to and from other dimensions. To the latter, stone bridges are inert remanent sandstone deposits that have been eroded into oxbows and undercut by small rivers over millions of years.

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Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication

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2022

Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

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Watery Introductions

Winstanley-Chesters

2019

Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours

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The book's introductory chapter outlines its ambitions, aims and objectives. Fish, fishing and fishing communities are perhaps among the most opaque and little-studied developmental ecosystems. Equally, North Korea is one of the most difficult to study and confusing research sites on the globe. In introducing this book, its shape and objectives, this chapter aims to give a coherent and comprehensive sense of how this opacity and difficulty might be overcome and managed. In particular, the chapter engages with the literature of vibrant, lively and non-human matters, as this is the lens through which the author seeks to explore the realm of fish, fisherpeople and fishing. Following the work of scholars such as Jane Bennett and Sarah Whatmore, the interactions and exchanges that mark out such a complex 'web of life' will be explored in a wide variety of scales, sites and situations. Vibrancy and liveliness of such fishing matter(s) will be considered in the context of both abundance and scarcity, vitality and degradation within this book and an introduction sensitive to thoughts and theories, which might bind these varied situations together is important to that consideration. Vital to this watery introduction to will be a sense of the nature of the web of life within which these vibrant matters function, especially in the political and politico-social sense of that web, focusing as it does on North Korea, a national polity possessed of its own peculiar, distinct and local form of politics. While Jason Moore, who coined the notion of the 'web of life' used within this book, sought to unpack the place and role of nature within a web of capitalist life, of course, North Korea is anything but a conventional space of capitalism. This book roots its analysis of Pyongyang's ideology within that produced by Heonik Kwon and Byung-ho Chung, which holds it to be characterised by a theatric or charismatic politics recognisable to both Max Weber and Clifford Geertz. Finally, this introduction engages with the methodologies and literature of fishing histories and geographies across the globe. The watery terrains of this book, therefore, from North Korea and its neighbours are complex assemblages of the symbolic, constructed and co-produced as well as the concrete and the vibrant. Keywords North Korea Á Geographic literature Á Fishing Á Heonik kwon and Byung-ho chung Á Vibrant matters

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Charisma in a Watery Frame: North Korean Narrative Topographies and the Tumen River

Winstanley-Chesters¹

2016

Asian Perspective

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New Goddesses at Paektu Mountain: Two Contemporary Korean Myths

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Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication

Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication

Watery Introductions

Charisma in a Watery Frame: North Korean Narrative Topographies and the Tumen River

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