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Connected & disconnected in Viet Nam : remaking social relations in a post-socialist nation by Philip Taylor (Editor)
Call Number: View online via ANU Press
Publication Date: 2016
This book features 11 chapters by anthropologists who draw upon research in both highland and lowland contexts to shed light on social capital disparities, migration inequalities and the benefits and perils of gift exchange.
Global debates, local dilemmas : sex-selective abortion in contemporary Viet Nam by Tran Minh Hang
Call Number: View online via ANU Press
Publication Date: 2018
This book is the first ethnography to document practices of sex selection in Viet Nam. It shows how and why abortions are used to select the sex of children and how Vietnamese individuals and health professionals are implicated in this illicit and controversial practice. Telling the stories of women who have undergone sex-selective abortions, their passage through sex determination and abortion decision-making.
Vietnam as if... : tales of youth, love and destiny by Kim Huynh
Call Number: View online via ANU Press
Publication Date: 2015
This text follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. 'The Sticky Rice Seller' explores gender roles; 'The Ball Boy' is all about the struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities; 'The Professional' examines relations between rich and poor; 'The Goalkeeper' delves into politics and ideology; and 'The Student' reflects upon family and faith.
Vietnam Vanguard: The 5th Battalion's Approach to Counter-Insurgency, 1966 by Ron Boxall and Robert O’Neill (Editors)
Call Number: View online via ANU Press
Publication Date: 2020
This book attempts to make the true nature of the war clearer to readers, emphasising how hard fought it was during major operations. Twenty-seven of the contributing authors of this book were involved in the 1966 deployment of the 1st Australian Task Force into Phuoc Tuy Province.

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