Fragments of the Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South

by Philip Taylor

This book explores in anthropological terms the cultural identity of the people of the Vietnamese South since the Vietnam War ended. The author describes southern Vietnam's postwar history, the impact of political and economic changes, policies towards music and popular culture, shifts in state ideology, and the contrasting fortunes of urban and rural communities. Philip Taylor spent a considerable time in a Mekong delta village undertaking ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824172
• ISBN13: 9780824824174
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"