석주명의 제주도 자료에 나타난 제주문화 : 『제주도수필집』에 나타난 제주도의 자연과 인문환경의 인식에 대한 비판적 검토를 중심으로

Abstract

If you examine the positive evaluations about Joomyoung Seok, two viewpoints are revealed. One viewpoint is the one that he opened regional studies as an integrated study in the situation where the concept of study on regions could not be established properly. The other view point is that nevertheless "this great Joseon(朝鮮) biologist" failed to get the spotlight properly because of "the climate in which people shrug Korean things and Korean people off and treat them like dirt". The single common view that penetrates these two viewpoints is that 'ours are precious'. In addition, in this common view and viewpoint, the praise that Joomyoung Seok is a genius scholar who tried convergence and integration or consilience of natural science and humanities before the 1950s comes to follow. There is no other thing that makes our hearts flutter as much as the evaluation our scholar was ahead of the times does. In addition, there is no other thing that makes us shameful as much as the reflection that the evaluation was not made properly does. But, if these evaluation and reflection are emphasized beyond the necessity, rather a doubt about the prerequisite comes to be raised. In particular, in a case such as the case of studies of Joomyoung Seok in which the elements including study of culture and heritage of the country and biology, regionality and universality, material conditions and cultural and psychological conditions and so on maintain the strained relations being opposed to each other, not only the person directly involved but also the researchers who study and evaluate him or her come to undergo a confusion created from the emphasis on the appropriateness which is more than the fact. If you start the prerequisite like this, you can try some changes of conception in a series of process to arrange the culture of Jeju shown in the 'Jeju Island Essays', which is the fourth volume that was published after he passed away among the 6 volumes of the Jeju Island Series of Joomyoung Seok. First, you can look back on the prerequisite of 'Joseon biology' that limited the viewpoint of Joomyoung Seok as a viewpoint of not a Jeju resident but 'The others(他者)' and for which even Seok himself could not help revealing "a cynical attitude" to some extent. In addition, through this series of process, you will be able to critically consider what impact his discussion about the climate to which we cannot help placing some distance in our times, that is, what relations the material conditions and the cultural and psychological conditions have mutually, has on the discussion on Jeju studies as localitology today.