Ritual and Economic Strategies against Vacant Succession in Premodern Korea
The article discusses the emergence of Confucian-style lineages in the seventeenth century against the background of Korea’s transformation from a bilateral to a patrilineal society on the model of ritual prescriptions. It argues that vacant succession was a technical impossibility because the neces...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques
2020
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| Zusammenfassung: | The article discusses the emergence of Confucian-style lineages in the seventeenth century against the background of Korea’s transformation from a bilateral to a patrilineal society on the model of ritual prescriptions. It argues that vacant succession was a technical impossibility because the necessity of continued performance of ancestral rites did not allow for vacant heirship. The introduction of primogeniture narrowed the boundaries of the ritual group by first depriving daughters and later sons of inheritance. As a strategy to mitigate conflicts among heirs a group of agnates larger than the ritual lineage (munjung) was created that encompassed all agnates of the lineage or lineage segments. Both succession and inheritance were preferably regulated within the lineage on the basis of ritual norms with only incidental state intervention. |
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