This paper studies in terms of nonverbal communication the roles of Gut-clothinbgs used in Jin-Do Sit-gim Gut. The types of nonverbal communication in Jin-Do Sit-gim Gut are clssified as follows : 1) The massage communicated through the ordinary clot...
This paper studies in terms of nonverbal communication the roles of Gut-clothinbgs used in Jin-Do Sit-gim Gut. The types of nonverbal communication in Jin-Do Sit-gim Gut are clssified as follows : 1) The massage communicated through the ordinary clothings of a shaman is that he or she is waiting to serve as a presider of a Gut ceremony, actiong as a mediator between the spritual and the human world. 2) The shaman clotings representing many kinds of spirits are visualized figures which are closely related to the common wishes of most people in a society, e. g. physical and material well-being, longevity, feritlity. 3) The clothings serve as a body figure in the Gut are classified into 5 groups. ① Laid-on clothings give the message that the body is standing still. ② Wrapped clothings serve as an incarnated body of the dead. ③ Spread clothings represent a lying body. ④ Oscillated clothings are the symbols of a spirit which moves from this world to another. ⑤ Burned clothings mean that the spirit has attained a complete seperation from this world.