Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam

by Edyta Roszko

Book Overview

This remarkable and 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 neighbors - 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776942872
• ISBN13: 9788776942878
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.