경북 동해안 지역 동제의 지속과 변화 -­영덕군 축산면 경정리의 사례를 중심으로­-

Abstract

This study started from the interest in what changes the political, economic, and social relationships of villages have gone through as time went on, and in what correlations these changes have with the maintenance and change of Dongje (a village ritual). This paper chose a fishing village in the east coast and then, studied the relevant documents and investigated the local site. Its research was focused on the formation of Dongje, the changes in the selected group, and the maintenance and change of the local residents' recognition of Dongje. The research results are as follows: First, in the neighboring fishing villages including the subjected village area, Dongje has been well preserved and handed down compared with the areas having different ecological backgrounds. It can be said that a folk belief has been positioned deep in the residents' living cultures. Secondly, in the subjected village and its neighboring fishing villages, the division of folk customs has been quite much progressed in the field of local rituals like Dongje. This division of folk customs in fishing villages reflects that fishing villages, which are folk villages and several family names-based villages, have hierarchy and heterogeneous characteristics in the social structure as serious as noble and racial villages. Third, the process of shrines' differentiation and integration in the subjected area reflects the existence of hierarchy related with the settlement time and the living activities, together with the process of its changes. The differentiation and integration of shrines in the subjected area resulted from the interaction between the social and economic heterogeneity in the village, and the external influence causing changes, which caused to change Dongje. Through this, it is possible to examine the social, economic, and political significance of a folk belief.