문옥표 (한국학대학원 교수)

Okpyo Moon
Name in Latin Alphabet:	Okpyo Moon
Nationality:	Republic of Korea
Affiliation:	The Academy of Korean Studies

강연자 소개

Okpyo Moon is Professor of Anthropology at the Academy of Korean Studies. She taught at Harvard University as Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies in 2000-2001 and has been a Visiting Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan in 2006-2007. Professor Moon is a member of various academic associations including the Royal Anthropological Institute in England, Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology and Korean Association of Cultural Anthropology where she is the President-Elect for the years of 2013-2014. She is also a member of the editorial board of several journals including the International Journal of Intangible Heritage and European Journal of East Asian Studies. Professor Moon was educated at Seoul National University (B.A. and M.A. in anthropology) and at the University of Oxford in U.K. where she received a doctoral degree in social anthropology with her study of a Japanese ski resort village, which was later published in England under the title, From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life (Manchester University Press, England, 1989). Since then, Dr. Moon has carried out extensive field researches both jointly and individually with particular focuses upon the comparative aspects of Japan and Korea in the areas of family and gender, urban and rural community making, ethnic minorities, tourism, popular culture and heritage maintenance policies, etc. Professor Okpyo Moon’s recent publications include New Women: Images of Modern Women in Japan and Korea (Seoul: Cheongnyeonsa, 2003, editor and co-author), Foreign Cultures in Us (Seoul: Sohwa, 2006, editor and co-author), Ethnic Relations of Overseas Koreans (Seoul: Acanet, 2006, editor and co-author), Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture (London: Routledge, 2009, co-edited with Sylvie Gichard-Anguis), Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance (Hawaii Univ. Press, 2010, co-author) and “Dining Elegance and Authenticity: Archaeology of Royal Court Cuisine in Korea” (Korea Journal 50-1, 2010) among others. She has also translated important books in anthropology and women’s studies including Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz (Kkach’i, Seoul, 1998) and Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China by Margery Wolf (Han’ul, Seoul, 1988).