Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples of Laos and Vietnam
A review of Forests, Spirits, and High Modernist Development: A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and…
Tag Archives: Vietnam
Narratives of Southern Vietnamese History
A review of Reconceptualizing Southern Vietnamese History from the 15th to 18th Centuries: Competition along the Coasts from Guangdong to Cambodia, by Brian A. Zottoli….
Avian Flu in Vietnam
A review of Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam’s Poultry Economy, by Natalie Porter. Since its appearance in 1997, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)…
Cholera & Public Health in Post-Transition Vietnam
A review of The Causes of Cholera: Public Health in Post-Transition Vietnam, by Martha Lincoln. In 2007, a series of anomalous cholera outbreaks occurred in…
Kennedy Administration & Herbicides in Vietnam
A review of Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Herbicides in South Vietnam, by Evelyn Krache Morris. At the crossroads of…
Mobility & Kinship in Prehistoric Vietnam
A review of The Ties that Bind: Population Dynamics, Mobility, and Kinship during the mid-Holocene in Northern Vietnam, by Damien G. Huffer. As observed in…
Politics of Community for Vietnamese Lesbians
A review of A Queer Political Economy of “Community”: Gender, Space, and the Transnational Politics of Community for Vietnamese Lesbians (les) in Saigon, by Natalie…
Tourism in Late Colonial Vietnam
A review of Vietnamese Tourism in Late-Colonial Central Vietnam, 1917–1945, by Erich deWald. Erich deWald has written an illuminating history of a phenomenon that has…