How does one put a price tag on a séance?
Kyoim Yun is associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Kansas.
"This is in short an extraordinary book, a corrective for anyone
who Orientalizes shamanic ritual."
*European Journal of Korean Studies*
"[A]n interesting encounter with popular religion in the changing
circumstances of Cheju."
*Journal of Asian Studies*
"[A] welcome contribution to an arena that has long needed to study
monetary transactions in ritual."
*Asian Ethnology*
"[T]he book is inspiring and innovative in terms of the deep and
detailed analysis of the multiple meanings of reciprocity in the
context of shamanistic rituals."
*Acta Koreana*
"An insightful and valuable contribution to the study of Korean
shamanism, it should find a place on the shelf of anyone who wants
to have a better and more complete understanding of this living
tradition."
*Journal of American Folklore*
"[C]learly one of the best books on musok out there."
*Religious Studies Review*
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