EAS271H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medicalization, Great Purge, Socialist Feminism
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The colonial cultures of global modernity (lec 6) Do-hyun han - shamanism, superstition, and the colonial government . Shamanism many people falsely believe this to be the root or core of korean culture and religiosity (34) Before colonialism was not praised as a proud tradition. Japanese termed shamanism as underdeveloped as such, koreans were primitive . Biomedical power was about both knowledge production and repressive power. Hygiene and civil order were the main responsibilities of the police in colonial korea (38) Interestingly, colonial japan and some korean nationalists shared the same goals. Shamanism was an economic waste, dangerous medical treatments. Power cloaked under a banner of modernity and utility. Health important to both the colonizer and colonized; thus, discourse on safe and hygienic healing was very effective and persuasive in controlling shamanism (50) Confucianism/buddhism was considered as the religion only for the elite; shamanism was the religion for the.
