18세기 경상도 단성현 법물야면의 혼인 양상

Abstract

The local relationship of marriage had an important meaning in the pre-modern society. At that time, marriage was not performed through free love but it was arranged marriage via hawk. The fact strengthened the political, intentional characteristic of marriage. The figure is shown well in the marriage relationship of the high class. The high class preferred the long-distance marriage to maintain social position of family and reinforce solidarity between classes through marriage. In the record of family register, it was general that the marriage of the high class was inter-hyeon marriage. However, it is not impossible to know whether the border of marriage was province or hyeon. When considering the fact that there was no powerful surname, who was in high public post, in Danseong area, it is assumed that the family looked for marriage partners in adjacent guns or hyeons such as Hapcheon and Samga. The clan village, which has been formed since the 18th century, became the main factor for the high class to look for marriage partner in the remote place. Therefore, the powerful noble class showed the figure of 'hierarchical marriage' with the woman of same descent family. It was the unavoidable method as the number of marriage partners decreased. The case of the middle or low class was different from that of the high class. The classes concentrated on the marriage within village (ri (village) unit) to reinforce the local solidarity. It was found that in inner-hyeon marriage, the marriage within village of the middle class shared more than 70%. They tried to maintain and reinforce their social solidarity and search for convenience of life through overlapped marriage on the basis of small local society unit. It is assumed that it showed the type of mutual cooperation for agriculture labor. The marriage of the middle or low class was not intentional or political when compared to that of the high class. Usually, the class tried to supplement weak decent family and reinforce mutual solidarity through the marriage in near place. Unlike the high class that has formed clan village, the class could find the marriage partner more easily in near place. The class was gakseongbati that had weak local foundation so it was easy for the class to find marriage partner in near place. The marriage of this class did not concentrated on paternal line. 'Local marriage' that without the classification of father's or mother's relative, the woman of decent family left to near place was relatively active. The narrow marriage network means the reduction of human relation or activity. After all, it caused the result to firm the relation between the high and the low. Because of the reason, the scope of marriage worked as the standard to classify the high and the low.