Affinal Relations in Rural Korea, 17th through 19th Centuries.

在韩国，对父系关系的研究很多，但对姻亲关系的研究相对较少。本研究是基于17世纪末至19世纪中叶的户籍资料分析亲缘关系的初步尝试。朝鲜王朝后期的朝鲜社会受到儒家思想的强烈影响，氏族制度变得更加完善。在当地社会中长期建立的亲属群体组织成称为Munjung的父系血统群体。然而，人口的高度地域流动性是这一时期的特点之一。研究的焦点之一是移民与亲缘关系之间是否存在相关性。本文分析了四个时期的户籍资料，每个时期包括五至七个村庄的350户左右，结果表明：（1）17世纪，村庄内部的亲缘关系十分频繁，但18世纪以后，这种亲缘关系急剧减少;显示现时─在这一时期，村庄外婚制的日常规范可能已经形成。2.亲缘关系似乎没有在促进移民方面发挥主要作用。不过，大部分村内的亲民关系是与有关乡村的新移民有关。

Much has been discussed on agnatic relationship in Korea, but relatively little attention has been paid to affinal relationship. The present research has been a preliminary attempt at analysing affinal relationship based on household registers of late seventeenth through midnineteenth centuries.Korean society during late-Choson period was under strong influence of Confucianism, and the clan system became elaborated. Kin groups long established in local societies organized themselves into agnatic descent groups called Munjung. However, a very high geographic mobility of the population was one of the characteristics of the period. One of the foci of the research was to find if there is any correlationship between immigration and affinal relations. Household registers from four periods, each including some 350 households in five to seven villages have been analyzed, with the following results.1.Intra-village affinal relations were frequent in the seventeenth century, but the frequency dropped sharply after the eighteenth century, indicating that the present-day norm of village exogamy may have developed during this period.2.Affinal ties do not appear to have playd a major role in promoting immigration. However, most of the intra-village affinal ties that did exist were associated wtih new immigrants to the village concerned.