Center for the Humanities

This is a one-page comic adaptation of a 2018 article, "Acquired Tastes: Urban Impactson Jeju Shamanic Ritual." The article, originally published in the December 2018 volume of The Review of Korean Studies, and the Bobcat Comics adaptation focuses on a phenomenon in shamanism in Jeju Island, South Korea in which offering goods increasingly feature cosmopolitan insertions. While the findings confirm longstanding observations that Jeju's indigenous shamanism is on the decline, the research also emphasizes that shamanic practices still maintain surprising vitality as they adapt newer forms of offering goods and ritual formats.