Articles

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

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 Perspectivesedited 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.