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Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam

Author : Shaun Kingsley Malarney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000026906
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam written by Shaun Kingsley Malarney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents and several years of field research in Thinh Liet Commune, a Red River delta community near Hanoi, it provides the first detailed account of the nature of revolutionary cultural reforms in Vietnam as how those reforms continue to animate contemporary socio-cultural life. The study examines the key foci of revolutionary cultural change, such as the articulation of a new moral system, the attempts to eliminate explanations that invoke supernatural causality, the creation of socialist weddings and funerals, and the development of innovation ties to commemorate war dead. By examining debates over culture, ritual, and morality that have emerged between residents, notably between men and women, and party members and non-party members, the study shows how ideas and values that preceded the revolution have entered into a creative dialogue with those that were articulated by the revolution, and how this has produced an innovative set of ritual and other practices, particularly since the relaxation of the cultural reform agenda in the post-1986 period.

Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

Author : Jayne Werner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134057024
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam written by Jayne Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. This book demonstrates that despite the formal institution of public gender equality in Vietnam, in practice women do not hold a great deal of power, continuing to defer to men in the family and community.

A World Transformed

Author : Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067992
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book A World Transformed written by Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Cultures of Development

Author : Jonathan Warren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134859767
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Development written by Jonathan Warren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts. Despite these realities, debates within mainstream development studies have stagnated around a narrow, acultural emphasis on institutions or the size and role of government. Cultures of Development uses a contrapuntal comparison of Vietnam and Brazil to show why it is important for development scholars and practitioners to broaden their conceptualization of economies to include the socio-cultural. This smartly written book based on original, ethnographic research breathes new life into development studies by bringing cultural studies into conversation with development studies, with an emphasis on improving—rather than merely critiquing—market economies. The applied deployment of critical development studies, i.e., interpretive economics, results in a number of theoretical advances in both development and areas studies, demonstrating the economic importance of certain kinds of cultural work carried out by religious leaders, artists, activists, and educators. Most importantly, the reader comes to fully appreciate how economies are embedded within the subjectivities, discourses, symbols, rituals, norms, and values of a given society. This pioneering book revives development practice and policy by offering fresh insights and ideas about how development can be advanced. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Development Studies, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, and Area Studies.

After the Massacre

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520939654
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book After the Massacre written by Heonik Kwon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians—assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Based on a detailed study of local history and moral practices, After the Massacre focuses on the particular context of domestic life in which the Vietnamese villagers interact with their ancestors on one hand and the ghosts of tragic death on the other. Heonik Kwon explains what intimate ritual actions can tell us about the history of mass violence and the global bipolar politics that caused it. He highlights the aesthetics of Vietnamese commemorative rituals and the morality of their practical actions to liberate the spirits from their grievous history of death. The author brings these important practices into a critical dialogue with dominant sociological theories of death and symbolic transformation.

Norms and Practices in Contemporary Rural Vietnam

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
ISBN 13 : 2355960038
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Norms and Practices in Contemporary Rural Vietnam written by Collectif and published by Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, while trying to maintain political stability and territorial integrity, the Vietnamese state has strongly moved towards the transformation of a centrally-planned economy to a more market-oriented model, in which private, foreign and joint-venture businesses are increasingly becoming the key pillars of the national economy. Another key aspect of the Đổi Mới's agenda was a fundamental shift in the party-state's foreign relations policy toward a normalization of Vietnam's diplomatic and trading relations with China, the United States, and other countries since the early 1990s. Over twenty years after the Đổi Mới renewal renovation, Vietnam has been praised by various domestic and international institutions for its “impressive” achievements in socio-economic development and poverty reduction and for its gradual liberalization and market diversification, coupled with its commitment to equality. Consequently, this has changed the relationship between the party-state and society in a number of fields, including the control of agricultural land and other forms of natural resources. Such transition marks a great change in our scholarly understanding of Vietnam. It has opened the door for intellectual exchange between academics and has resulted in a great amount of research and new knowledge/publications in different languages about various domains regarding Vietnamese society, including the relationships between the state and society at different levels and in various sectors or geographic areas. Among them, studies like those of Kerkvliet, Fforde and others, have developed the “everyday politics approach”, which examines social interactions on an everyday action basis. This approach “from below” has given a fresh impetus to the study of social relations in Vietnam. However, our observations regarding academic research show that besides a number of rich ethnographic studies, there are many analyses from different social science disciplines that give a generalized view of trends of development and change in Vietnamese society over the past decades with limited field data. This means that research projects based on first-hand data from longer periods of fieldwork and qualitative investigations are still inadequate. As a result, we are suggesting that more field-based research be carried out in order to enhance and promote our understanding of Vietnam, especially its processes of socio-political changes.

Ritual and Revolution in Viet Nam

Author : Shaun Kingsley Malarney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Revolution in Viet Nam written by Shaun Kingsley Malarney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion und die Modernität von Traditionen in Asien

Author : Judith Schlehe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825806569
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Religion und die Modernität von Traditionen in Asien written by Judith Schlehe and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zum Verständnis der Welt sind Einsichten in die Wirkmächtigkeit und Dynamik religiöser Weltdeutungen unverzichtbar. Die diversen asiatischen Religionen verbinden sich auf vielfältige Weisen mit veränderten Lebensumständen, wobei Modernisierungs- und Traditionalisierungsprozesse gleichermaßen wichtige Rollen spielen. Die Beiträge des Bandes betrachten diese Prozesse aus der Sicht verschiedener Disziplinen.

Nonstate Warfare

Author : Stephen Biddle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216665
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Nonstate Warfare written by Stephen Biddle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfare Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle upturns this distinction, arguing that there is actually nothing intrinsic separating state or nonstate military behavior. Through an in-depth look at nonstate military conduct, Biddle shows that many nonstate armies now fight more "conventionally" than many state armies, and that the internal politics of nonstate actors—their institutional maturity and wartime stakes rather than their material weapons or equipment—determines tactics and strategies. Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum, spanning Fabian-style irregular warfare to Napoleonic-style warfare involving massed armies, and he presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor’s position on this spectrum. Showing that most warfare for at least a century has kept to the blended middle of the spectrum, Biddle argues that material and tribal culture explanations for nonstate warfare methods do not adequately explain observed patterns of warmaking. Investigating a range of historical examples from Lebanon and Iraq to Somalia, Croatia, and the Vietcong, Biddle demonstrates that viewing state and nonstate warfighting as mutually exclusive can lead to errors in policy and scholarship. A comprehensive account of combat methods and military rationale, Nonstate Warfare offers a new understanding for wartime military behavior.

Vietnam at War

Author : Mark Philip Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192895788
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at War written by Mark Philip Bradley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to look at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced the wars for Vietnam, including both the French and the American wars. Combining political, social, and cultural history, Bradley examines how the war was seen both by top policy makers and also everyday soldiers and civilians in both North and South Vietnam.

Competing for Land, Mangroves and Marine Resources in Coastal Vietnam

Author : Hue Le
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9402421092
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Competing for Land, Mangroves and Marine Resources in Coastal Vietnam written by Hue Le and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a historical and ethnographic study of changing mangrove management in northern Vietnam over the past 100 years, grounded in a case study in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. The book shows that three primary socio-economic dynamics have affected mangroves: enclosure movements that have restricted access by different user communities over time, such as the exclusion of women; changing valuation of mangroves and their products and services; and social and class differentiation caused by privatization of once common resources. The result of these pressures have been erosions of norms, rules, and collective action to protect and nurture mangroves, leading to widespread loss of coastal forests. Sustainable mangrove management will require attention to these dynamics to address current-day land conflicts. The book will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, and academics and students in forest policy, management and governance; rural livelihoods; and globalization and agrarian change.

Goddess on the Rise

Author : Philip Taylor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824844513
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Goddess on the Rise written by Philip Taylor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Mother, benevolent creditor, healer, relationship advisor, business consultant, the Lady of the Realm is one of a group of goddesses whose shrines attract devotees from all corners of rural and urban society. Goddess on the Rise follows these pilgrims' pathways, taking readers on a journey through a cultural landscape of popular rites, beliefs, and exegesis into a world where female deities reign supreme. Philip Taylor's in-depth study of pilgrimage introduces readers to the practical expectations, passions, and controversies that surround the goddesses, bringing to life the effervescence, creativity, and flux of modern Vietnamese religion. He offers important insights into people's everyday experience of the profound economic, cultural, and social transformations underway in this socialist country.

Possessed by the Spirits

Author : Karen Fjelstad
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719149
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Possessed by the Spirits written by Karen Fjelstad and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.

Zen Conquests

Author : Alexander Soucy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824892194
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Zen Conquests written by Alexander Soucy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tail end of the twentieth century, a monk transformed a small village temple on the outskirts of Hanoi into a monastery and meditation center called Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc—a place where monastics and lay Buddhists could learn and practice Zen meditation. In time the original temple was replaced by numerous large buildings to accommodate meditation sessions, youth events, weddings, classes, and a variety of other activities designed to keep practitioners engaged. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s approach to Buddhism as a life commitment for all ages and genders has been very successful, attracting more than a thousand Buddhists to its weekly services. It joined Thiền phái Trúc Lâm, a much larger organization started by Thích Thanh Từ in southern Vietnam that has expanded to northern Vietnam and internationally. In Zen Conquests, Alexander Soucy presents not only the first ethnography of Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc and its followers, but also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s Zen tradition purports to be a continuation of the only Zen Buddhist sect founded in Vietnam: the fourteenth-century Trúc Lâm Zen School. However, the movement can also be seen as the product of Buddhism’s globalization, born from the D. T. Suzuki-inspired interest in Zen in South Vietnam during the American War. Despite its claims to be authentically Vietnamese Zen, it more closely resembles Modernist versions of Buddhism practiced by Western converts in North America than anything Vietnamese. Soucy maintains that it is only by looking at the processes of globalization that Vietnamese Buddhism (both in the context of Vietnam but also in the Vietnamese diaspora) can be properly understood. He argues convincingly for acknowledging the continued influence of transnational, pan-Asian, and global flows of migration and communication on the development of multiple forms of Buddhism worldwide.

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Author : Susan Bayly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805395025
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective written by Susan Bayly and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Vietnam

Author : Văn Huy Nguyễn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520238718
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Văn Huy Nguyễn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, accessible portrait of contemporary Vietnam through texts and complementary photographs that dispute the stereotypic images we have of this dynamic and diverse country.

Postwar Vietnam

Author : Hy V. Luong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847698653
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Postwar Vietnam written by Hy V. Luong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historically grounded examination of the dynamics of contemporary society in Vietnam, including cultural, political and economic dimensions, focuses on dynamic tensions both within society and among societal forces, the state, and global capital.