Fishers, monks and cadres navigating state, religion and the South China Sea in central Vietnam

This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Roszko, Edyta, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press [2020]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745221606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a triad of confrontation
  • 1. The coastal society: historical and vernacular geographies
  • 2. Doing and making religion in Vietnam
  • 3. Between land and sea: spatial and social boundaries among fishers and farmers
  • 4. Discipline, purification and indiscipline among state agents, religious modernizers and fishers
  • 5. Making the Paracels and Spratlys Vietnamese through commemoration
  • 6. Women and new gendered ritual divisions
  • Conclusion: shifting confrontation in the state-religion-society triadic relationship.