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| Data.No. | 526 |
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Annotation | Korean Games
Hard cover,cloth sm 4to.(10"x8").xxxvi] + 177p., Index to Korean Names, Index to Chinese Names, Index to Japanese Names, General Index .Korean Games with Notes on Corresponding games in China and Japan, 1st edition, 1st printing, limited to 550 copies, this being #119 of 550 and signed by the author, "Steward Culin". 22 vellum covered colored plates and numerous diagrams throughout. Internally near fine with only fold marks on some vellum cover sheets. Cover is beveled boards with orginal white cloth and bright Korean flag symbol in red and blue, spine lettered with red title and blue author's last name. An amazing book that documents and illustrates 135 games from pre-1900 Korea, China and Japan. A scarce title and a very informative book written and composed by Stewart Culin, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Palaeontology, Univ. of Pennsylvania. Very rare source on Korean Studies. ..............................................................................................
Biography STEWART CULIN (1858-1929) excerpted from multiple on line sources.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Pennsylvania, in 1892 Culin was appointed
Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and
Paleontology. In 1903 he became curator of Ethnology at the Institute of
Arts and Sciences of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. At various times
he served as a consultant to the United States Bureau of American Ethnology;
was on the Editorial Board of the American Anthropologist, and was a
contributing member of the American Folklore Society.
He had a profound interest in the occult and the mysterious, as evidenced by
his articles on the subjects of voodoo, Chinese secret societies, and sorcery. Culin was a
"diffusionist", and through his studies he attempted to illustrate how and
why similar games appear in different cultures.
Culin's first published report on games in 1889 concerned Chinese games with
dice. During 1891 he worked on an exhibit of games of the world for the Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, and published two papers on games - one about street
games of city boys - and the second about Chinese gambling games. A 1893
report on Chinese games with dice and dominoes was published by the United
States National Museum. Also in 1893 Culin reported on the Columbian
Exposition exhibit of games. Perhaps inspired by his work at the Exposition,
in 1894 he prepared a paper on Mancala games from Africa, which was
published later that year by the U.S. National Museum.
Culin published over 65 papers, articles, and books on a variety of
subjects, ranging from the practice of Chinese medicine in the United
States, to the evolution of fashion as found in works of fine art.
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| Author | Culin, Stewart
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| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpia |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1895 |
| Language | English |
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