producing ethnic monographs or even village studies
The skill of the young Sihanouk in navigating between Vichy France
Bamboo Palace takes readers from the jungles of South-east Asia to the north-western United States
the politics of authenticity
and circulation within and beyond national boundaries
Cultivating Gender: Meanings of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam Popular Literature producing ethnic monographs or evenBy Cecilia Bergstedt 240 pp., Illustrated, 2015 The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows. In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures the ideal essence of farming life, the reality is that urbanization, labour migration and economic change in the Vietnamese countryside are leading to a