A noun matters, it signifies implicit meanings, enabling those who understand what the noun is signifying, to utilize it for axiological, praxeological and ontological assessment, which furthermore, can have material socio-economic and cultural repercussions, as I hope to illustrate. Somebody asks if we like the taste of something, a mushroom, for example. The word…
Read MoreInto the Hailstorm – To Let Go and To Just Go Out Foraging
Originally posted on Grunewald Foraging:
Copyright Evey Kwong 2017 It seems I’ve neglected the Grunewald Foraging blog for some time. The truth is, my intention for this website is not to record or detail my foraging walks (though I might refer to them for some specific reason); the blog was started more to record my…
Jeju Island’s Haenyo: A User’s Manual, bil-le, bil-le, beach of death
Originally posted on pagansweare:
? The women of one coastal village on Jeju Island, South Korea are so tough, even the shamans feel a certain hesitation to perform rituals there. I can attest to their toughness. Pyeol-ro-Neo-man-ri was one of the first villages I explored and probably the village, over several years, that I returned…
Jeju Island’s Haenyo: A User’s Manual, the diver who heard music underwater
Originally posted on pagansweare:
I had a beautiful experience once, one night drinking wine on a coastal boardwalk, in a village just outside of the city. It was mid-summer. I think in those days I was inviting whoever I could to come out where I lived to share some wine and conversation. Otherwise, it was…
Jeju Island’s Haenyo: A User’s Manual, interview with a young diver
Originally posted on pagansweare:
The first in a series of posts for 2017 in which I explore issues affecting the women divers (haenyo) of Jeju Island, South Korea– issues primarily related to the gentrification and rapid development of South Korea’s largest island. I’ve been speaking with the haenyo in depth over the last five years as…
