19세기 巨濟 舊助羅里의 부세운영과 촌락사회의 동향

Abstract

In the 19th century, the village of Gujora-ri and its neighborhood were exposed to burdens from various central and local authorities. Regional natural villages including Gujora were organized in several forms for the administration, where it mattered if one could maintain its independence as a unit for taxation collection. The village society in Gujora and its neighbors paid various taxation and miscellaneous corvee jointly, and this routinized the pressure and intervention from the official authority. As seen in the cases like dissolving the conflict in the local tribute of shiitake mushrooms or responding to illegal foraging of mussels and seaweeds, the cluster of villages organized for the payment of taxation and corvee had a type of bond in concert for the coordination of inner opinions and communal response to outer factors. The most important principle in managing the taxation and corvee of the community, as shown in the case of transportation corvee of wooden materials for shipbuilding, was the fair and equal distribution of burden among the villages. The accusation movement around the conflict on tent-building corvee shows that people of Gujora and its neighbors tried to accomplish their claim with an active political movement. On one hand, the permeation of the administrative authority disrupted the autonomy of individual villages, but, on the other hand, it became an opportunity for the villages to enhance their solidarity rather than to be atomized or fragmentized. Thus, it can be argued that the strong permeation of official authority created an interdependent, cooperative relationship among the villages through the horizontal solidarity as a response, and as a result, this became a significant motivating factor producing a daily political culture for the management of local community.