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Vietnamese kinship: structural principles and the socialist transformation in northern Vietnam
Journal of Asian studies • 48 (4) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 741-756
By: Luong, Hy V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article shows the continuity of gender inequality in the former North Vietnam, despite decades of socialist programs that sought to bring an egalitarian soceity by transforming property relations, male-centered social organization and class divisions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Economic planning and development
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Residence
- Household
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- Extended families
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Kindreds and ramages
- Lineages
- Kin groups
- 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
- article
- 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
- Teferi A. Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hy Van Luong
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 754-756)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 43014717
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese