갯벌 어로와 구술생애사 －무형문화유산의 지속가능한 발전을 위한 제고－

Abstract

This study analyses the possibility of sustainable development of tideland fishing as an intangible cultural heritage, which based on life history of women who worked at tideland. The collection of cockles, a kind of tideland fishery, is other than women’s work. In this study, it examines carefully the transmitted knowledge of tideland fishery work, on the women who harvested cockles. Those women sold cockles which they harvested at Beolgyo marketplace or other 5-day markets. And they bought daily necessities and paid children’s school expenses by their income. Therefore those women are really the main agent of tideland fishery, who worked at tideland as well as house and did expand their area of activities beyond their own family and village. Through this study on the transmitted knowledge of cockles and the way of succession of tideland fishing, it find out that the ‘Neolbae’ fit for the name of a board boat which used at tideland fishery than ‘Bbeolbae’ meaning mud board. The former used by the ordinary people, but the latter designated by the authorities. And it finds out there is a contraction between the informal record or memory and official documents regarding on its origin and activities of ‘Beolgyo Cockles Festival’, a venue of sustenance of cockles fishery as an intangible cultural heritage. In Hajang village, the women who participated on harvesting cockles, recognized that they are a kind of community of transmission. So these women are the authentic host of harvest, sustenance and inheritance of the fishery of cockles at home and tideland. This study briefed that the only and/or proper way is oral life history, if anyone to know the traditional knowledge of harvesting cockles. However, the voice of those women are ruled out in public discourse, even though they are the host of transmission of fishing cockles. In its final analyses, it is needed to a reflective study on Neolbae, tideland fishery, and intangible cultural heritage of fishing.