조선시대 족보의 女性 등재 방식 변화 -여성의 夫家 귀속과 다원적 계보의식의 축소- = The Method of Registering Women in the Genealogy of Joseon Period－Focusing on the Married Women’s Membership in Their Husband’s Family and the Reduction of Pluralistic Kinship Consciousness－

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The descendants of women are not listed in the patrilineal genealogy. However, the descendants of daughters were registered in the early Joseon genealogy, and the ancestors of daughters-in-law were registered in the late Joseon genealogy. Apparently, all genealogical records of the Joseon Dynasty seem to constitute a marriage network with women as nodes. The purpose of this study was to find out that the early genealogy of daughters’ descendants implemented the kinship network covering all types of descent rather than the marriage network.
Sons-in-law linked by marriage were listed before daughters-in-law also linked by marriage because of the practice of not recording women's names publicly in pre-modern Korean society. Sons-in-law’s name is usually listed instead of daughters’ name, but sons-in-law’s children, not daughters’ children, were not considered grandchildren and are excluded from the record. If a daughter’s only husband has a child and the child is not her biological child, she was recognized as having no descendants. The editors of genealogy in the early Joseon period were more interested in verifying daughters’ descendants than marriage relationship with sons-in-law’s family. If a son had more than one wife, the genealogy editors clearly recorded how many children each daughter-in-law gave birth so that they could identify their mother's ancestry. This was part of an effort to verify non-patrilineal descent rather than the marriage relationship with daughters-in-law’s family.
Since the mid-18th century there have been many changes in the way women are listed. The mark on a daughter’s marriage order disappeared and the willingness to determine who was daughters’ descendant was weakened. The description of a woman who does not have children was changed from ‘muhu(無後)’ to ‘muyuk(無育)’. ‘Muyuk’ is an expression that implies the notion that women only contribute to nurture, and that the pedigree origin is in the father. In many cases, the remote ancestors of daughters-in-law were recorded. This was intended to represent the family of daughters-in-law and to establish a marriage network between the lineage groups based on patrilineal descent.