CULTURE, RITUAL AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM by Malarney, Shaun ISBN 0700715797
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This is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents and several years of field research in Thinh Liet commune, near Hanoi.
Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents and several years of field research in Thinh Liet commune, a Red River delta community near Hanoi, it provides the first detailed accounting of the nature of revolutionary cultural reform in Vietnam, as well as how those reforms continue to animate contemporary socio-cultural life. Beginning with the tumultuous 1954 land reform in Thinh Liet, the study examines the key foci of revolutionary cultural change, such as the articulation of a new moral system, the attempts to eliminate explanations that invoke supernatural causality, the creation of socialist weddings and funerals, and the development of innovative rites to commemorate war dead. From their inception, however, these reforms were controversial, as they raised powerful questions regarding the proper fulfilment of moral obligations, the ideal constitution of society, the nature of the world, and the position and abilities of humans within it. By examining debates over culture, ritual, and morality that have emerged between residents, notably between men and women, and party members and non-party members, the study shows how ideas and values that preceded the revolution have entered into a creative dialogue with those that were articulated by the revolution, and how this has produced an innovative set of rituals and other cultural practices, particularly since the relaxation of the cultural reform agenda in the post-1986 period. This volume provides a unique accounting of the historical dynamics of revolutionary change in Vietnam and also the diverse ways in which the residents of one community conceive of their reality, their society, and their position in it. It will be of interest to social scientists, historians, and students of Asian societies and cultures.
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[edit] Title
CULTURE, RITUAL AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM
[edit] Author
Malarney, Shaun
[edit] ISBN
0700715797
[edit] Published
30/11/2001
[edit] Publisher
Curzon Press Ltd
[edit] Binding
hardback
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70 (GBP)
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