조선후기 兩班家系와 地域民의 관계 및 그 변화양상 - 해남윤씨 고문서를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study set out to examine in details the mutual relations of head family of Haenam Yun clan, which has lived in Yeondong, Haenam, Jeolla Province for generations, and local residents of Haenam and thus figure out the influences of local noblemen on people of lower classes in the area and changes to their influences in the latter half of Joseon. The relationships between the Yun family line and local residents were represented by relief and dispensation from the 16th to the 19th century. There are many moving stories of the family including the one in which they paid the Hwangok for people of lower classes in the area in the 16th century and another in which they helped starting people through an irrigation project in the 17th century. Those moving stories consolidated local residents under the influence of Yun family naturally, which helped the family maintain its patriarchal relations with local people of lower classes as their guardian of some sort. The family, however, did not offer them dispensations all the time. Their relief efforts for local residents were met by the utilization of their labor in land reclamation, which was a case of pursuit of mutual benefits between them. The family also practiced the ideal of relief and care for the servants living in Haenam and, at the same time, maintained a strict patriarchal relation with them so that they would not move above the status gap between them(Nojujibun). Entering the 19th century, however, several challenges emerged to make it impossible to keep the patriarchal relationship any longer. People of lower classes started to demand for less tax as they developed independent economic power and social solidarity, and servants began to resist coercion outside the realm of economy. The Yun family made rather slow responses to the changes of their consciousness and had conflicts with them, not being able to react to them right away, but both the sides searched for proper compromises to imply a gradual shift to contractual relationships.