일생의례 조사의 성과와 비판적 검토－국립문화재연구소 일생의례 조사보고서를 중심으로－

Abstract

This paper allotted the outcome and critical review of the end of the annual project publication of 'rites of passage’ edited by the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage. It is because the critical reflection on the officially published reports is essentially required for propriety, fitness and purposefulness and furthermore, future’s connecting work. First, it is the review of archival characters, namely research outcomes of the investigation and research project. As the maximum outcomes of a national investigation and research project are overall similar, it is to accumulate data from intensive investigation and research and massive outcomes. This investigation and research project also partially achieve archival outcomes. The rites of passage converged from all over the nation can be utilized as the archives of the ‘rites of passage.’However, there is a doubt whether the limitation to study the four ceremonial occasions of coming of age, marriage, funeral and ancestral worship only from the traditional viewpoint is appropriate. Second, it is about examination on reactionism and nowness. This investigation stands for rites of passage but in fact, has the ultimate purpose and main research subject for the three ceremonial occasions of marriage, funeral and ancestral worship including the birth ritual. But, when it comes to our Korean history of the 21st century, only the three ceremonial occasions of marriage, funeral and ancestral worship don’t mean everything. It is because the school system, army systems, various social organizations and social group system and company systems introduced under the nation-state and the militarism system of the Japanese colonial era are very important to the people’s rites of passage. The omission of coming-of-age ceremony and coming-of-age ritual can be pointed out. Most of changing customs are rarely included in this paper.