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Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Van Huy Nguyen (Ed.)
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Description for Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Nguyen, Van Huy; Kendall, Laurel. Num Pages: 303 pages, 149 color photographs, 25 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; GTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 255 x 16. Weight in Grams: 732.
"Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit" takes the reader on an informed and engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. Created to accompany the first major collaboration between a Vietnamese museum and an American museum on an exhibition of Vietnamese culture, this book 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. The contributors - most of whom live and work in Vietnam, while others have spent many years in intimate association with ... Read more
"Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit" takes the reader on an informed and engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. Created to accompany the first major collaboration between a Vietnamese museum and an American museum on an exhibition of Vietnamese culture, this book 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. The contributors - most of whom live and work in Vietnam, while others have spent many years in intimate association with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520238725
SKU
V9780520238725
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99-1
About Van Huy Nguyen (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
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