Local Spirits and “Nguyễn Dynasty Religion”
Several months ago, or maybe longer, I downloaded a new article that I wanted to read, but I’ve only now had time to do so.The article is by Trần Thị…
The Lạc Việt – The Ancestors of BOTH the Việt AND the Zhuang?
I recently co-wrote an article with my colleague, anthropologist Đinh Hồng Hải, on the “Lạc Việt” (Chn., Luoyue).This is a name that appears in ancient Chinese texts where it refers…
Why We Know So Little About Premodern Vietnamese Popular Religion
In the previous post I praised a recent article by Cuong Mai on premodern Vietnamese popular religion. What I particularly liked about it is the way that Cuong identified and…
A Really Great Article on (Premodern) Vietnamese Religion
I just read a really good article. It is entitled “The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales of the Marvelous and Uncanny”…
Vietnam at the Vanguard & the New Contexts for Knowledge Production about Vietnam
“Vietnam at the Vanguard.”Yes, we know what comes to your mind when you hear those words.You think of that legendary night.October 25, 1962.The Village Vanguard in Manhattan was packed with…