Connecting places, constructing Tết: home, city and the making of the lunar new year in urban Vietnam
This paper presents an overview of the main features and nature of Tết, the Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, as it is currently experienced in Hồ Chí Minh City. It outlines a variety of social practices associated with Tết and suggests that it is through these that one can identify a ‘festive lan...
| Published in: | Journal of Southeast Asian studies |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2012
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Journal of Southeast Asian studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vietnamese New Year
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| Further subjects: | B
Vietnam
B Cultural event B Social behavior B Holiday B Celebration B Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Celebration Holiday Kulturelle Veranstaltung Soziales Verhalten |
| Summary: | This paper presents an overview of the main features and nature of Tết, the Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, as it is currently experienced in Hồ Chí Minh City. It outlines a variety of social practices associated with Tết and suggests that it is through these that one can identify a ‘festive landscape’ in the city, within which a number of diverse places are made into and experienced as ‘meaningful space’ in the context of the Tết festival. The emphasis is on how the spatial practices associated with the festival constitute the lived experience of Tết by urban residents and on how this both transforms and connects various sites. Of particular importance here is the family home and how it is linked to the wider holistic experience of Tết, bringing together in a single place sacred and secular, public and private, and the production and consumption of place, in a social construction that is characterised as a heterotopia. (J Southeast Asian Stud/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4634 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies
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