Vietnamese Social Institutions
Mark Sidel wrote:
Below, a query from a university sociology colleague - any ideas from
the VSG list? Do we have good volumes with this sort of breadth in
Vietnamese studies? Many thanks for any suggestions....
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Could you please recommend to me a relatively recent book on
Vietnamese social institutions? Would need to be in English for the
student that
needs it. I teach a course in sociology on comparative family
systems. ... Each student needs to read in preparation a background
volume on their country's
history, with particular attention to culture and social
institutional topics such as law, family, schools, culture
industries.... One student ... is doing her project on Vietnam, and
I don't know of a suitable volume to recommend to her.
Philippe Papin's insightful "Vietnam, Parcours d'une nation" (Paris:
Belin, 2003) would be a strong candidate. Sad that it is not available
in English.
Jean Michaud
You can read (maybe available in english) : Stephane Dovert 's book :
"Viêt-nam contemporrain, IRASEC, 2004"
M. Verney Sébastien
Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam by Shaun Kingsley Malarney, University of Hawaii Press Honolulu 2002
Elizabeth Riley
Pham Van Bich, The Vietnamese Family in Change. The Case
of the Red River Delta. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon in
cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,
1999.
Rolf Herno
I should not forget my wife's book:
Tine Gammeltoft, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries: Health
and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune. Curzon
1999.
Rolf
The following spring to mind:
Neil Jamieson: Understanding Vietnam (University of
California Press, Berkeley 1995).
Helle Rydstrom: Embodying Morality. Growing up in Northern
Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2003).
Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrom: Gender practices in
contemporary Vietnam (Singapore University Press/ NIAS
Press, Singapore/ Copenhagen 2004).
Harry Aveling
Dear colleagues,
A number of people asked for the list I'd received of volumes that relatively broadly address Vietnamese society and culture, in response to a query from a sociology colleague interested in books for senior-level undergraduate reading that treat family life, education and a range of other topics. Here is the list I have so far, in the rough order I received these suggestions.
Mark Sidel
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Neil Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (University of California Press, Berkeley 1995).
Helle Rydstrom: Embodying Morality. Growing up in Northern Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2003).
Pham Van Bich, The Vietnamese Family in Change. The Case of the Red River Delta. (Curzon in cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1999).
Tine Gammeltoft, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune. Curzon 1999.
Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrom: Gender practices in contemporary Vietnam (Singapore University Press/ NIAS Press, Singapore/Copenhagen 2004).
Philippe Papin, Vietnam, Parcours d'une nation (Belin, 2003).
Stephane Dovert, Viêt-nam contemporrain (IRASEC, 2004).
Shaun Malarney, Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2002).
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Here are a few more for your list, Mark.
Hien
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Mai Elliot. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. Oxford University Press. 1999.
Nguyen Ngoc Huy. The Confucian Incursion into Vietnam, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos. State University of New York Press. 1998.
Walter H. Slote. Destiny and Determination: Psychocultural reinforcement in Vietnam, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos. State University of New York Press. 1998.
Stephen B. Young. The Orthodox Chinese Confucian Social Paradigm versus Vietnamese Individualism, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos. State University of New York Press. 1998.
Nguyen Trieu Dan. A Vietnamese Family Chronicle: Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River. 1991.
Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield. Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 1999.
Francois Houtart and Genevieve Lemercinier. Hai Van: Life in a Vietnamese Commune. Zed Books. 1984.
Hien