Fishers, monks and cadres : navigating state, religion and the South China Sea in central Vietnam / Edyta Roszko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roszko, Edyta, author.

Contributor:

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, publisher.

Series:

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 140.

Monographic series / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies ; no. 151

Monograph series ; no. 151

Language:

English

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Fishing villages--Vietnam.

Fishing villages.

Ethnology--Vietnam.

Ethnology.

Religion and politics.

Vietnam.

Vietnam--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

South China Sea.

South China Sea Region.

Local government--Vietnam.

Local government.

Religion and politics--Vietnam.

Physical Description:

xxii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen K, Denmark : NIAS Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Some text in romanised Vietnamese.

Summary:

This remarkable and very 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 neighbours - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the centre of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-240) and index.

ISBN:

9788776942861

8776942864

9788776942878

8776942872

OCLC:

1158473878