Urbanization in Vietnam
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"The book's most compelling insight is how women in particular gained new economic power, especially in their role as daughters who remained in the village, upending the long-standing emphasis on patrilocality. While the book’s scope is limited to one setting, it provides a comprehensive portrait of how these residents responded to the encroaching city and reconfigured their livelihoods and economic activities in response."
A. Truitt, Tulane University, CHOICE
'Drawing on a wealth of historical information on Hanoi and sixteen years of fieldwork in thiscommunity, Bousquet explores the social, spatial, and economic transformation of this “urbanvillage”...extremely valuable works by an experienced field worker that contribute a great deal to the growing corpus of excellent work in the anthropology of Vietnam.'
Alfred Montoya is associate professor of Anthropology at Trinity University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of cities. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 180
- ISBN
- 9780815364702
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
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"The book's most compelling insight is how women in particular gained new economic power, especially in their role as daughters who remained in the village, upending the long-standing emphasis on patrilocality. While the book’s scope is limited to one setting, it provides a comprehensive portrait of how these residents responded to the encroaching city and reconfigured their livelihoods and economic activities in response."
A. Truitt, Tulane University, CHOICE
'Drawing on a wealth of historical information on Hanoi and sixteen years of fieldwork in thiscommunity, Bousquet explores the social, spatial, and economic transformation of this “urbanvillage”...extremely valuable works by an experienced field worker that contribute a great deal to the growing corpus of excellent work in the anthropology of Vietnam.'
Alfred Montoya is associate professor of Anthropology at Trinity University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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