An affair with Korea

Description:

"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"--

subjects: Social life and customs,  Description and travel,  Fishers,  Villages,  Anthropologists,  Maritime anthropology,  Americans,  Fishing villages,  Rural conditions,  Biography,  Case studies,  Villages, korea,  Korea, social life and customs,  HISTORY / Asia / Korea,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers

People: Vincent S. R. Brandt

Places: United States,  Ch'ungch'ŏng-namdo (Korea),  Yellow Sea Coast (Korea),  Korea (South)

Times: 20th century