사라져가는 직업과 생업공간의 민속지(1)

• 영문명: An Ethnography of the Dispensary of Korean Herb Medicine : Inheritance and Change in Korean Traditional Medicine
• 발행기관: 한양대학교 수행인문학연구소
• 저자명: 박경용(Bak Gyeung-Yong)
• 간행물 정보: 『수행인문학』수행인문학 제38집 제1호, 5~36쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.05.30

영문 초록

The aim of this article is to understand inheritance and change of traditional medicine through an ethnography of the dispensary of Korean herb medicine (hanyakbang, 韓藥房). Everyday work of hanyakbang consists in buying, cutting, making weight, packing and processing, selling and delivering a variety of medicinal stuff. All these tasks were operated by hand at a dispensary of Korean herb medicine before the introduction of cutting and baiting instruments. Hanyakupsas (韓藥業士) buy their herb medicine from mediators, wholesalers at some wholesale market of yangyungsi (藥令市), or directly from gatherers and growers at places of production as well. Especially, Daegu yangyungsi has been a strongpoint of both concentration and distribution of herb stuff for quite a long time. Hanyakupsas must not only keep herb medicines in proper condition, but purchase them of quality as high as they could do. They make the most of their social network and improve regular customer services by means of notices at their stores, appealing to their latent customers. The best of all means is an ‘oral announcement,’ having recourse to the effectiveness of advertisement spread through former patients’ oral report witnessing good virtue of medicine and medical treatment they have experienced. Traditional medicine has changed in many respects, with division of business right and allotment of its legal function through transition period since Independence Day. For a long time hanyakupsas have practiced retail sales as well as wholesaling, but such a practice has got limited only to the former since 1980’s. Since the ‘hanyak conflict’ in 1993, the retailing function of Korean herbal medicine has been licensed to be handled by four professions: hanyakupsa; hanyuisa (韓醫師); hanyaksa (韓藥師); and pharmacists combining the job of hanyak (韓藥調劑藥師). In addition to the introduction of automatic cutting and boiling instruments, it is the standard institution of hanyak coming into effect since 1996 that has had the scale of hanyakbang and its employment definitely reduced. In spite of these changes, main cultural aspects of the Korean medicine have unchangeably continued in its composite of medical practices, which includes careful medical examination (執症) and some healing practices, writing a prescription and preparing drugs for their patient after deciding some proper type of administration of medicine among infusion, pill, plaster, and powder. Elderly Korean herbal pharmacists have handed down these traditions in their normal standard of herbal medicinal practicing.

목차

Ⅰ. 머리말

Ⅱ. 생활사 연구와 생업공간의 민속지

Ⅲ. 한약방의 일상사와 수행 양상

Ⅳ. 약재 구입 방법과 경로

Ⅴ. 약재 보관과 관리

Ⅵ. ‘정업’의 실천과 구전 광고

Ⅶ. 맺음말

인용 문헌

Abstract

키워드

민속지 한약방 한약업사 한약재 생활문화 생활사 ethnography a dispensary of Korean herd medicine Korean herbal pharmacists medicinal stuff culture of everyday lives history of everyday lives