essay
State stigma, family prestige, and the development of commerce in the Red River Delta of Vietnam
Market cultures : society and morality in the new Asian capitalisms • Boulder, Colo. • Published In 1998 • Pages: 268-289
By: Malarney, Shaun Kingsley.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the history of commerce in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It focuses on cultural factors that have supported or obstructed economic development, such as the stigmatization of commerce. The author discusses these cultural factors in their sociopolitical context, particularly as regards to the regressive economic policies promulgated by sucessive governments.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- Tillage
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Retail marketing
- Division of labor by gender
- Occupational specialization
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Individual enterprise
- Cooperative organization
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Gender status
- Household
- Chief executive
- Government regulation
- Political parties
- 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
- essay
- 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
- March 1990 - August1992, December1993 - February 1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1835 - 1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shaun Kingsley Malarney
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-289)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97036705
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese