The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam
Author: A. Terry Rambo
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 244
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Author: A. Terry Rambo
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean Michaud
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1136827889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The originality of this book lies in the combination of multi-disciplinary mixing of social anthropology, history and human geography; multi-culturality grouping together several cultural contexts; trans-nationality straddling five countries and bridging the traditional divide between South China and Mainland South-East Asia; and history reaching back 300 years.
Author: Oscar Salemink
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1351226967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses these in their relation to tribal, ethnic, territorial, governmental and gendered discourses. Salemink's book is a timely contribution to anthropological knowledge, as the ethnic minorities in Vietnam have (again) been the object of fierce academic debate. This is a historically grounded post-colonial critique relevant to theories of ethnicity and the history of anthropology, and will be of interest to graduate students of anthropology and cultural studies, as well as Vietnam studies.
Author: W. Neil Adger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1134604211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVietnam and the neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia face diverse challenges created by the rapid evolution of their social, economic and environmental systems and resources. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the Vietnamese situation, identifying the factors shaping social vulnerability and resilience to environmental change and considering prospects for sustainable development.
Author: Bach Tan Sinh
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eleanor Jane Sterling
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0300128215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnam’s natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and thirty-five original watercolor illustrations, the book offers a complete tour of the country’s plants and animals along with a full discussion of the factors shaping their evolution and distribution. Separate chapters focus on northern, central, and southern Vietnam, regions that encompass tropics, subtropics, mountains, lowlands, wetland and river regions, delta and coastal areas, and offshore islands. The authors provide detailed descriptions of key natural areas to visit, where a traveler might explore limestone caves or glimpse some of the country’s twenty-seven monkey and ape species and more than 850 bird species. The book also explores the long history of humans in the country, including the impact of the Vietnam-American War on plants and animals, and describes current efforts to conserve Vietnam’s complex, fragile, and widely threatened biodiversity.
Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9789812302755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates the changing ways in which people have accumulated wealth, social and cultural capital in Vietnam's move from a socialist to a market-oriented society.
Author: Melanie Beresford
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789812302281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam - from central planning and from under-development - affects various sectors of the population. Beresford from Macquarie University.
Author: J. P. Harris
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 0700622837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vietnamese state. Successive South Vietnamese governments, their American allies, and their Communist enemies all realized early on the fundamental importance of this region. Paul Harris's new book, based on research in American archives and the use of Vietnamese Communist literature on a very large scale, examines the struggle for this region from the mid-1950s, tracing its evolution from subversion through insurgency and counterinsurgency to the bigger battles of 1965. The rugged mountains, high plateaus, and dense jungles of the Central Highlands seemed as forbidding to most Vietnamese as it did to most Americans. During 1954 to 1965, the great majority of its inhabitants were not ethnic Vietnamese. Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime initially supported an American counterinsurgency alliance with the Highlanders only to turn dramatically against it. As the war progressed, however, the Central Highlands became increasingly important. It was the area through which most branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail passed. With its rugged, jungle-clad terrain, it also seemed to the North Vietnamese the best place to destroy the elite of South Vietnam's armed forces and to fight initial battles with the Americans. For many North Vietnamese, however, the Central Highlands became a living hell of starvation and disease. Even before the arrival of the American 1st Cavalry Division, the Communists were generally unable to win the decisive victories they sought in this region. Harris's study culminates with an account of the campaign in Pleiku province in October to November—a campaign that led to dramatic clashes between the Americans and the North Vietnamese in the Ia Drang valley. Harris's analysis overturns many of the accepted accounts about NVA, US, and ARVN performances.
Author: Terry C. H. Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1849713944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basis of this book is the disparity between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. The book argues for an 'evidence-based approach', drawing information from fifteen projects in the Lower Mekong regions, with the aim of allowing more effective integrated conservation projects.