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Embodying Morality - Growing Up in Rural Northern Vietnam (Hardcover, New)
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Embodying Morality - Growing Up in Rural Northern Vietnam (Hardcover, New)
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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 Rydstroom offers fresh data - from audiotapes,
videotapes, 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. The author's highly original application of
post-structuralist theory to Vietnam blends epistemology, practice,
body, and socialization theories with feminist analysis and relates
these to children's learning. By proposing the body as an analytic
category that can move feminist theory beyond the impasse of the
well-established opposition between sex and gender, Embodying
Morality demonstrates vividly how specific, cultural elaborations
of corporeality are learned, lived, and experienced in contemporary
rural Vietnam.
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