널배와 꼬막, 삶과 죽음의 매개체

Abstract

This study analyses the daily and non-daily activities of women through their Neolbae(board-boat) and cockle fisheries at Hajang village, Jangam-ri. It focuses upon oral life history of women, who had been worked in the tideland of Hajang village. By this work, it is find out that Neolbae used not only as a means of transporting for cockle fishing but only for taking the dead body who died at the tideland. That is, Neolbae is a tool for cockle fishing as well as an equipment for carring corpse. And it also finds out that cockles are cooked not only as a normal daily food but also as a ritual food of ancestral rites for holiday and funeral rites. For example, on ancestral rite for Mr. Jang Dong-Beom’s deceased grandmother in Hajang village, cockles were treated as a very important special food, which were located on the center of ritual table. Therefore, Neolbae and cockle are intermediary things connecting the life and death, and a medium material for understanding the funeral rites or culture, in Beolgyo area. The results of this study disclosed that the oral life history of those women form the basis of tideland fishing culture, and they are ‘actual’ land lady of tideland of Hajang village. Their oral life history contains their daily life and exhausting works at boundaries of the life and death, between home and tideland, village and marketplace. Those oral life history takes a storage of the locality of Beolgyo area as well as a micro history of female economy on this region. In this sense, the oral life history of those women which neglected in the formal discourse and public memories, is very important material for filling history of the excluded local women or minorities within the public and male dominated history.