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9781920901059

Searching for Vietnam Selected Writings on Vietnamese Culture and Society

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    9781920901059

  • ISBN10:

    1920901051

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-03-01
  • Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
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Summary

Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as a Vietnam researcher that sets each of the selections into the context of the time and situation in which it was written. The writings are grouped into five topical sections: cultural history, religion, and cultural ecology; the Vietnamese village; the impact of the war on South Vietnamese society; Vietnam's development prospects in the its reform period; and problems of development in Vietnam's mountains.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Maps x
List of Abbreviations xi
Biographical Note xv
Preface xvi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Reflections on an intellectual journey 1(56)
Part I: Vietnamese Culture
Introduction to Part I
57(3)
1 Black flight suits and white do dais: Borrowing and adaptation of symbols of Vietnamese cultural identity
60(9)
2 Religion and society in Vietnam
69(40)
3 Culture, environment, and human settlement in the uplands of Vietnam
109(6)
Part II: The Vietnamese Village
Introduction to Part II
115(2)
1 The occurrence of closed corporate and open peasant social systems in Vietnam
117(15)
2 Closed corporate communities: Reopening a hastily shut case
132(9)
3 Prospects for sustainable development in the villages of the Red River Delta (coauthored with Lê Trong Cúc)
141(22)
Part III: The Impact of the War on South Vietnamese Society
Introduction to Part III
163(2)
1 Why they are winning: A field note from the wartime south
165(2)
2 Cultural change in rural South Vietnam (coauthored with Neil L. Jamieson)
167(43)
3 The causes of Vietnamese refugee movement
210(11)
4 Why they fled: Refugee movement during the spring 1975 communist offensive in South Vietnam (coauthored with Lê Thi Qué. and Gary D. Murfin)
221(10)
5 South Vietnam: Why the sky fell so fast
231(12)
Part IV: Vietnam's Development Prospects in the Reform Period
Introduction to Part IV
243(2)
1 Environment, natural resources, and the future development of Laos and Vietnam: An overview
245(12)
2 The challenges of Vietnam's reconstruction (coauthored with Nguyên Manh Hùng and Neil L. Jamieson)
257(9)
3 Dilemmas of development in Vietnam
266(15)
Part V: Problems of Development in Vietnam's Mountains
Introduction to Part V
281(2)
1 Perspectives on defining highland development challenges in Vietnam: New frontier or cul-de-sac?
283(9)
2 Development trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region
292(50)
3 The development crisis in Vietnam's mountains (coauthored with Neil L. Jamieson and Lê Trong Cúc)
342(31)
4 Social organization and the management of natural resources: A case study of Tát Hamlet, a Dà Bác Tày ethnic minority settlement in Vietnam's northwestern mountains (coauthored with Trân Dúc Viên)
373(28)
Notes 401(24)
References 425(22)
Maps 447(6)
Index 453

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