무속 죽음의례의 일반성과 지역성 연구 시론 - 서울과 진도 무속 죽음의례의 비교를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper aims to make certain the commonality and difference of death rituals in Seoul and Jindo shamanism through comparison of both, and tries to arrive at the understanding of the generality and local particularities of death rituals in Korean shamanism. But this paper does not show concretely the generality and local particularities of death rituals in Korean shamanism. As the generality of death rituals in Korean shamanism, this paper only points out the common classification of types of death rituals, the dichotomy of ritual structure for both the quick and the dead, and the slightness of god’s role in guiding the dead to the otherworld. As to the local particularities, this paper only ends in indicating the differences in degree of emphasis and performance of ritual motifs. What makes to explain difficult the local particularities of death rituals is that the commonality appears more clearly than the difference in comparison of death rituals in Seoul and Jindo shamanism. By the way it makes to reflect the previous viewpoint that stressed the difference more than the commonality of death rituals in Seoul and Jindo shamanism, and suggests a possibility that a road to the new understanding of death rituals in Korean shamanism can be given by comparison of them. This paper has a certain limit in that it does not attain a concrete perception of the generality and local particularities of death rituals in Korean shamanism. Therefore this paper is nothing more than an essay to aims to grasp the generality and local particularities of death rituals in Korean shamanism through comparison of death rituals in Seoul and Jindo shamanism.