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Informationen zum Autor Nguyen Van Huy is Director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and the principal author of The Cultural Mosaic of Ethnic Groups in Vietnam (1997). Laurel Kendall is Curator of the Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Her books include Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender! Morality! and Modernity (California! 1996) as well as several other works on gender and popular religion. Klappentext A vivid! accessible portrait of contemporary Vietnam through texts and complementary photographs that dispute the stereotypic images we have of this dynamic and diverse country. Zusammenfassung Takes the reader on an informed and engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. This title moves beyond the troubled wartime history of both nations to a deeper portrayal of how Vietnamese of different ages, ethnicities, occupations, and circumstances live at the start of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction A Journey between Two Museums -Laurel Kendall and Nguyen Van Huy 1 One Country! Many Journeys -Oscar Salemink 2 Vietnam's Ethnic Mosaic -Frank Proschan 3 Tet Holidays: Ancestral Visits and Spring Journeys -Nguyen Van Huy 4 The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tet Trung Thu)! Yesterday and Today -Nguyen Van Huy 5 Four Ways to Map a Year's Journey -Chu Van Khanh! Cam Trong! and A Bao 6 Bat Trang: A Pottery Village and Global Node -Nguyen Anh Ngoc 7 Scenes from the Sapa Market -Claire Burkert 8 The Yao Initiation Ceremony in the New Market Economy -Ly Hanh Son 9 Weddings and Funerals in Contemporary Vietnam -Shaun Kingsley Malarney 10 Other Journeys of the Dead -Luu Hung! Nguyen Trung Dung! Tran Thi Thu Thuy! Vi Van An! and Vo Thi Thuong 11 The Village God's Journey -Nguyen Van Huy! Nguyen Anh Ngoc! Nguyen Huy Hong! and Nguyen Trung Dung 12 The Perilous Journey of the Then Spirit Army: A Shamanic Ritual of the Tay People -La Cong Y 13 Len Dong: Spirits' Journeys -Ngo Duc Thinh List of Contributors Photograph Credits Index ...
