Living with Uncertainty
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- Publisher:
- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
- Publication date:
- May 2017
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9789814620277
- 9789814620291
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
- Subjects:
- Organisational Sociology, Sociology
- Series:
- Indochina Unit
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- Organisational Sociology, Sociology
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- Indochina Unit
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Book description
This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic reform in the 1980s. It investigates how social, economic and political factors affect the farmers' life in the Mekong Delta in the late socialist era with a particularly focus on the family, which serves as the basic and most significant social unit for the farmers. Dealing with classical anthropological topics of kinship and family, the book examines them as dynamic institutions. With vivid illustrations of the village life, family farming, education of children, jobs outside of farming and everyday politics, it presents new and different pictures of the current Vietnamese family under rapid social changes.
The book will contribute to the current ethnographical research in Vietnam and Southeast Asia and also be of particular interest to those working on society and culture in the geographical region from broader disciplines. It will also appeal to readers who are interested in such topics as late socialism, social transformation, and rural development.
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