Living with uncertainty social change and the Vietnamese family in the rural Mekong Delta

This is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic reform in the 1980s. It investigates how social, economic and political factors affect the farmers' life in the Mekong Delta in the late socialist era, with a particular focus on t...

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Main Author: Shibuya, Setsuko 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies [2015]
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