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Author Rydstrøm, Helle, author

Title Embodying morality : growing up in rural northern Vietnam / Helle Rydstrøm
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chapter 1: First morality, then knowledge -- Chapter 2: Situating bodies -- Chapter 3: Female morality -- Chapter 4: Practicing tinh cam -- Chapter 5: Corporeal honor -- Chapter 6: Learning morality in school -- Chapter 7: Body styles -- Chapter 8: Conclusions
Summary "One of the first anthropological studies based on extensive fieldwork in Vietnam in decades, Embodying Morality examines child-rearing in a rural Red River delta commune. It is a sophisticated and intriguing exploration of the ways in which a family system based on principles of male descent influences the moral upbringing and learning of girls and boys." "In Vietnamese culture, boys alone perpetuate the patrilineal family line; they incorporate the past, present, and future morality, honor, and reputation of their father's lineage. Within this patrilineal universe, girls are viewed as blank sheets of paper and must compensate for this deficiency by embodying tinh cam (sensitivity, sense). Such attitudes play a significant role in the upbringing of girls and boys and in how they learn to use and understand their bodies. Helle Rydstrom offers fresh data - from audiotapes, video-tapes, textbooks, observations in the home and at school - for identifying the transformation of local and educational constructions of females, males, and morality into body styles of girls, boys, women, and men. She highlights the extent to which body performances in daily life produce, reproduce, and challenge widespread northern Vietnamese ideals of femininity and masculinity."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index
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SUBJECT The Vietnam War Filmmusik gnd
Subject Rural children -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Collective settlements -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Case studies
Moral development -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Case studies
Sociology, Rural -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Case studies
Rural children -- Vietnam -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Collective settlements -- Vietnam -- Case studies
Moral development -- Vietnam -- Case studies
Sociology, Rural -- Vietnam -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Collective settlements
Moral development
Rural children -- Social conditions
Sociology, Rural
Landbevölkerung
Kind
Erziehung
Familierelaties.
Agrarische maatschappij.
Etnografie.
Vietnam
Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Vietnam
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780824862336
0824862333