Silence and Sacrifice

Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Merav Shohet

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How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav Shohet explores what happens across generations to families that survive imperialism, war, and massive political and economic upheaval. Placing personal sacrifice at the center of her story, Shohet recounts vivid experiences of conflict, love, and loss. In doing so, her work challenges the idea that sacrifice is merely a blood-filled religious ritual or patriotic act. Today, domestic sacrifices—made largely by women—precariously knot family members together by silencing suffering and naturalizing cross-cutting gender, age, class, and political hierarchies. In rethinking ordinary ethics, this intimate ethnography reveals how quotidian acts of sacrifice help family members forge a sense of continuity in the face of trauma and decades of dramatic change.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-20
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520379381

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Vietnamese and Transcription ConventionsPrologue: Landing Introduction: Vietnam Is a Country, Not a WarPart I. Sustaining National and Family Sacrifice 1. "Not only those on the battlefield": (Extra)Ordinary Sacrifice2. Rituals and Routines of Sacrifice: Respect Those Above, Yield to Those Below3. Troubling Love: Models for Gender (In)Equality?Part II. Care Narratives and the Limits of Love4. Waiting as Care? Sacrifice and Tình Cảm in Troubled Times5. Children and Lovers: Marriage, Morality, and MotherhoodConclusion: Mourning in Silent SacrificeNotesBibliographyIndex

"Shohet’s study responds to a single question: What holds families together despite the strain of a century of turbulent conflict and inequities stemming from liberalizing economic reform? Her chapters answer this question by focusing on three interrelated principles that sustain family connections in the midst of radical change: love, sacrifice, and asymmetrical reciprocity. She examines these concepts in five chapters that reveal, on the one hand, how individual, familial, and national sacrifices are mutually intertwined and can even dovetail. On the other hand, sacrifice for love can also enforce silences and cause conflicts—ideas that Shohet reveals through stunningly intimate portrayals of family relations."