TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brandt, Vincent S. R.
TI  - An affair with Korea: memories of South Korea in the 1960s 
SN  - 9780295993416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 306.09519 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Seattle, Washington
PB  - Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington
KW  - Villages
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Fishing villages
KW  - Yellow Sea Coast (Korea)
KW  - Fishers
KW  - Maritime anthropology
KW  - Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Description and travel
N2  - "In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brandt lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared. Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont"--
ER  -