동해안 어촌마을의 지역적 통혼권

Marriage Network of a Fishing Village on the East Coast

This is a case study that deals with the areal marriage network of a fishing village on the east coast of Korea. The village under study is yu village ìn Chuksan-myon, Yongdok-gun, Kyongsangbuk-do ovìnce. A field survey was undertaken to identify the native places of those women who were married to the men grown up ìn this village. ηle survey shows that people ìn the fishìng village seldom people from the farming village and that they are most likely to choose their partners ìn the same or other fishing villages. In Chayu village, 74.3% of married women under survey came from the same and other fishing villages. The proportion of marriages ìn same village, i.e. village endogamy, was 13.5%. In contrast, however, few cases of village endogamy were found ìn a farm village near αlayu. Here the proportion of married women who came from other farming villages was aImost 70%, and only 20% of married women were natives of fishing villages. The remaìnìng 10% originated ÍTom the urban areas. It can be arled from this study that the differce ìn marriage network between the fishìng and farmìng villages, espedally the low rate of ìnter-village marriage between them, was not so much due to the voluntary decisions of the fishing village residents as due to the reluctance of the farm villagers to people in the fishing viilages. This practice can be interpreted as a form of ’class endogny .