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Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam./
Author:	Shohet, Merav.
Description:	428 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3450977
ISBN:	9781124558578

Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam.
Shohet, Merav.

Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam. - 428 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2010.

Prevailing models in anthropology theorize sacrifice as a flesh-and-blood religious ritual or nationalist act, often tinged with---or outright marred by---violence. This dissertation integrates the methods and perspectives of cultural, linguistic, and psychological anthropology to expand and challenge these models by exploring sacrifice as a quotidian moral practice of virtue, duty, and devotion that organizes social relationships, participation frameworks, and dispositions in Vietamese families across lifespans. Analyses draw on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Central Vietnam to show how sacrifice (hy sinh) entails routinely circumscribing one's affective expression and silently embracing suffering for the sake of another across the community's cosmology, activities, social roles, and events. Data---including participant observation, naturalistic video recordings, and interviews---indicate that ritual and mundane displays of sacrifice help family and community members avoid explicit conflict or confrontation, and thereby enact the idealized Buddhist-Confucian mantra that social superiors must yield to and take care of their inferiors, who in turn must display deference, respect, and devotion to their superiors. The research relies on thick descriptions of households' pervasive ancestor worship practices, childcare and play interactions, gendered spousal and parenting experiences and expectations, and the ritual management of grief and mourning, to detail the ways in which sacrifice is generationally reproduced as a codified, naturalized form of virtue ethics in the community. A central argument of the dissertation is that material concretizations of sacrifice are communicative displays of care and devotion rooted in a model of personhood in which one's subjectivity is always peopled by the subjectivities of hierarchically positioned others with whom one is engaged in asymmetrically reciprocal relationships. Thus, at both the micro-interactional level, and on a larger macro-historical scale, sacrifice and demonstrative devotion are invoked by family members in the name of tradition and the continuity of the generations, as well as by the State, in the name of development, modernization, and marketization. While this beckons community members to bracket and (almost) forget past hurts (e.g., war, poverty, conflict) lurking in the shadows of the present, it is argued that sacrifice norms meet their limit in fully and permanently conventionalizing social action and emotion.

ISBN: 9781124558578Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam.
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