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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hitchhiking Vietnam Hitchhiking Vietnam Karin Muller The author, an American woman, tells the story of her seven-month adventure hitchhiking through Vietnam in search of villages and people untouched by the encroaching commercialism of the Western worl… OL15836982W
Spirits without borders Spirits without borders Karen Fjelstad "Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The product of collaborative … OL16151592W
So happiness to meet you So happiness to meet you Karin Esterhammer "After job losses, the author and her family start over in a most unlikely place: a 9-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into… OL19713258W
Sounding out heritage Sounding out heritage Lauren Meeker "In 2009, Quan Họ B̆ác Ninh Folk Songs was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Defining and reframing quan họ as cultural heritage has further c… OL19986947W
Mitch Epstein Mitch Epstein Mitch Epstein "These pictures, made in the seventies and eighties, offer a window onto the beginning and breadth of Mitch Epstein's career. Most of these photographs are previously unpublished - culled from a body… OL3275783W