Martina Deuchler’s Under Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status and Locality in Pre-Modern Korea, is a vast and ambitious work that seeks to explore the development of kinship – and the persistent importance of kinship and inherited social status – in pre-modern Korea from the early Silla dynasty to 1894. The bulk of the book, which is concerned with Andong and Namwŏn from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, makes extensive use of documents from aristocratic sajok household of those areas to reconstruct the development of sajok status during the Chosŏn period. She works with the ambitious goal of tracing a “native kinship ideology” that placed the social maintenance of aristocratic social status above court politics. As she writes in the conclusion: “The indigenous kinship ideology, with its celebration of status hierarchy and status exclusivity, ran like a red thread through Korea’s history from early Silla to the late nineteenth century” (408). The book is organized into five parts, each divided into several chapters. Part I, “Foundations” (15-76), explores the trajectory of a hereditary

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在祖先的眼睛下：前现代韩国的亲属、地位和地方。作者：玛蒂娜·德赫勒。马萨诸塞州剑桥：哈佛大学亚洲中心，2015 年。xviii，609 页 [ISBN：9780674504301]

Martina Deuchler 的《祖先眼中：前现代韩国的亲属关系、地位和地方》是一部宏大而雄心勃勃的作品，旨在探索从前现代韩国的亲属关系的发展——以及亲属关系和继承社会地位的持续重要性。新罗早期至 1894 年。 这本书的大部分内容涉及 15 世纪至 19 世纪的安东和南旺，大量使用这些地区的贵族沙牧家庭的文件来重建朝鲜时期沙牧地位的发展时期。她的远大目标是追寻一种“本土亲属意识形态”，这种意识形态将贵族社会地位的社会维护置于宫廷政治之上。正如她在结论中所写：“土著亲属意识形态，颂扬地位等级和地位排他性，从新罗早期到 19 世纪后期，它就像一条红线一样贯穿韩国的历史”（408）。本书分为五部分，每部分又分为几章。第一部分，“基础”（15-76），探讨了遗传的轨迹