Historical Anthropological Research on Korean Familliies: the cases of slave families during the Chosun dynasty period

本项目的目的是将最低社会阶层的人，奴隶，纳入朝鲜王朝时期韩国家庭结构的历史研究中，这反过来又将为更高阶层的家庭组织或奴隶主提供新的线索。本研究以1690年至1753年大邱地区的户籍资料为研究对象，将本研究的新发现归纳如下。下层平民和奴隶之间频繁的通婚表明，尽管在法律上有所区别，但他们在社会关系中似乎并没有被明确地分开。尽管如此，居住在其主人家庭之外的奴隶家庭在同一地区的居住以及几代人的家庭繁殖方面明显不如平民家庭稳定。登记在册的奴隶的性别比例是显而易见的。 ...更多信息 在编制户口簿的任何一年，这一比例都不平衡，表明男性奴隶往往在记录中缺失。然而，集中在他们的父母的名字，这也是记录，奴隶，无论是生活在家庭内外的主人，合同相当稳定的婚姻关系。在调查所涉时期，平民的家庭组织开始强调父系组成，但奴隶之间的亲属关系，特别是生活在主人家中的奴隶之间的亲属关系，显示出强烈的母系偏见，这反映了新法律规定子女的法律的地位应遵循母亲的地位。奴隶主与一些奴隶之间长达五代以上的持久关系，以及奴隶在长期逃亡后年老返回时所受的待遇，以及奴隶父母逃亡时将婴儿留在奴隶主家中的情况，这似乎表明，主奴关系可能不是简单的支配和服从关系，而是具有相互依赖的色彩，可能接近道德经济，这一点需要进一步探讨。少

The aim of the present project is to include the people of the lowest social strata, the slaves, in the historical research of Korean family structure during the Chosun Dynasty period, which in turn will shed new lights on the household organizations of the higher strata, or the owners of the slaves. The data analyzed in this project are household registers from Taegu area between 1690 and 1753.The following is the summary of new findings of this project.1. The high frequency of intermarriage between the lower strata of the commoners and the slaves indicate that, although legally differentiated, they do not seem to have been clearly segregated from each other in their social relationships.2. Still, the households of slaves who lived outside of the households of their owners were clearly much less stable than their commoner counterparts in terms of residence in the same locality as well as in household reproduction over generations.3. The sex-ratios of the registered slaves are obviousl … More y unbalanced for any of the years when household registers were prepared, indicating that male slaves tended to be missing from the records. However, focusing on the names of their parents, which are also recorded, slaves, both living within and outside of the households oftheir masters, contracted reasonably stable marital relationships.4. While the period under investigation corresponds to one during which household organization of the commoners began to show emphasis towards patrilineal composition, kinship ties among the slaves, particularly among those living within the households of their masters, show strong matrilineal bias, reflecting the new law that dictated that the legal status of children should follow that of the mothers.5. The enduring relationships spanning over more than five generations that emerge between the masters and some of the slaves, as well as the treatment of slaves who return in their old age after long periods of escape, and also cases of slave parents fleeing while leaving their infant children in their masters' households, seem to indicate that master-slave relationships may not have been one of simple dominance and subjection but also had a tint of mutual dependence that may approach one of moral economy, a point that needs further explorations. Less