Searching for Vietnam Selected Writings on Vietnamese Culture and Society

by Rambo, A. Terry

• ISBN13: 9781920901059
• ISBN10: 1920901051
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Trans Pacific Press

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