K-Shamans: K-Dramas and Changing Perceptions of Mudang Credibility
Liora Sarfati
Acta Koreana, 29 (1): 1–18, June 2026
A Hundred Years of Protest Landscapes in Korea: Performance and Affect Producing Symbols as the Basis for Success in Mass Demonstration in Seoul
Liora Sarfati
Zmanin, 151: 72-87, 2025 (in Hebrew)
From Rural Outcasts to Urban Cosmopolitans: Spiritual Healers in Seoul
Liora Sarfati
Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 14 (1): 84-100, May 2024
The Writing on the Wall: Affective Politicization of the Sewŏl Disaster on Facebook
Liora Sarfati & Guy Shababo
Korean Studies, 47: 214-242, August 2023
The Cosmopolitan Vernacular: Korean Shamans (Mudang) in the Global Spirituality Market.
Liora Sarfati
Religions 14: 189, 1-21, January 2023.
Signalling ‘Crisis’ in an Affective Manner: Government,Media and Public Cooperation during COVID-19 in South Korea.
Liora Sarfati
Urbanities, 10 (Suppl. 4): 76-79, Sept 2020.
Healing through Gender Inversion in Korean Possession Trance Rituals.
Liora Sarfati
The Drama Review, 64 (3): 16–32, Spring 2020.
Circles of Poetic Grief, Anger, and Hope: Landscapes of Mass Cooperation in Seoul after the Sewŏl Disaster
Liora Sarfati & Bora Chung.
Journal of Folklore Research, 57 (1): 1-32, Winter 2020.
Affective Protest Symbols: Public Dissent in the Mass Commemoration of the Sewŏl Ferry’s Victims in Seoul
Liora Sarfati & Bora Chung
Asian Studies Review 42 (4): 565-585, Autumn 2018.
Morality and Legitimacy in the Sewŏl Protest in South Korea
Liora Sarfati
Urbanities Special Issue — Edited by I. Pardo and G. B. Prato Urbanities, Vol. 8 · Supplement 1, April 2018. Ethnographers Debate Legitimacy
Vernacular Dialectics:Spiritual Practices of Tsaddik Veneration by Secular Israelis Vernacular
Liora Sarfati
Journal of American Folklore 131 (520): 181-208, Spring 2018.
Shifting Agencies through New Media: New Social Statuses for Female South Korean Shamans
Liora Sarfati
Journal of Korean Studies 21 (1): 179-211, Spring 2016.
Book Chapters
Delegitimizing Authority through Folklore: The Impeachment of the South Korean President Pak Kŭn-hye
Liora Sarfati
pp. 78-95 in The Folklore of Democracy: Tradition and Democratic Culture, edited by Anthony Bak Buccitelli. University Press of Mississippi, 2026
COVID-19 and the Understanding of Illnesses in Korean Shamanism
Liora Sarfati
pp. 160-178 in Competing and Complementary Epistemes: Religion, Spirituality and Public Health, edited by Karen O’Brien-Kop and Suzanne Newcombe. Liverpool University Press, The British Academy, 2025
The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel
Liora Sarfati
pp. 185-205 in The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Pardo Italo, and Giuliana B. Prato. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Morality and Legitimacy in the Sewŏl Protest in South Korea
Liora Sarfati
pp. 281-304, in Ethnographies and Legitimacy: Methodological and Theoretical Insights, edited by Pardo Italo, and Giuliana B. Prato. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.
Urban Development and Vernacular Religious Landscapes in Seoul
Liora Sarfati
pp. 499-518, in The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Anthropology, edited by Pardo Italo, and Giuliana B. Prato. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
New Technologies in Korean Shamanism: Cultural Innovation and Preservation of Tradition
Liora Sarfati
pp. 233- 245, in Performance Studies in Motion, edited by Citron Atay, David Zerbib, and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014.
