Book
Facing the future, reviving the past: a study of social change in a Northern Vietnamese village
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies • Singapore • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Kleinen, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is based on the author's fieldwork in 1992 and regular visits since then to a small Red River delta village in the former North Vietnam which he calls Lang To (a pseudonymn). The document deals with the history of the village since its founding in the mid-seventeenth century, based on existing French and Vietnamese archival materials, and discusses the essential character of the village community. Special interest in the study '…is focused on powerful lineages and groups whose members benefited from the recent revival of religious activities as a result of the renovation policy. Ritual and religious life give ideological legitimization to various social groups. At a juncture when Vietnamese society is changing at a very fast pace, a longitudinal study of this kind is deemed necessary for the reader to receive a first-hand account of the interplay between the current reform under a nominally Marxist regime and local village society. It is further argued that the re-emergent localism expressed by the village's attempts to regain autonomy is accommodated by efforts of the state to mitigate undesirable side effects' (p. vi).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Cooperative organization
- Nuptials
- Lineages
- Community structure
- External relations
- Political parties
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988-1998
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Lang To (a pseudonymn), BAC BO, Red River Delta, Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Kleinen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99912774
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese/Villages--Vietnam, Northern--Case studies/Local government--Vietnam, Northern--Case studies/Làng Tô (Vietnam)--History/Làg Tô (Vietnam)--Social conditions--Case studies/Làng Tô (Vietnam)--Rural conditions--Case studies