Author Affiliation: University of Toronto, Canada.
摘要
This paper examines the dynamics of the restructuring of Vietnamese discourses on culture and the nation at large over the past half a century, in relation to the process of ritual revitalization in Vietnam since the early 1970s. It is a process culminating in the Vietnamese socialist state's official embrace of a broader range of past practices as part of Vietnam's cultural legacy. This recognition extends to the official discourse on the nation, culture and development. The paper suggests that this shift is rooted at least as much in the dialogic relation between the Vietnamese socialist state and local populations, as in the stronger integration of Vietnam into the global capitalist system. The analysis is based partly on field data on ritual revitalization from two northern Vietnamese communities.
目次
A Shift from Developmental to Cultural Nationalism? 440 The State, Capital, and Local Sociocultural Dynamics 447
