Main entry:

Harms, Erik (Anthropologist)

Title & Author:

Saigon's edge : on the margins of Ho Chi Minh city / Erik Harms.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.

Description:

xiv, 294 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Saigon, inside out -- pt. 1. Social edginess. 1. Bittersweet transitions : urbanization on the fringe of the city ; 2. Power and exclusion on the edge : the conflation of rural and urban spaces -- pt. 2. Space, time, and urban expansion. 3. Future orientations in the country of memory : social conceptions of time ; 4. Negotiating time and space : household, labor, land, and movement -- pt. 3. Realizing the ideal. 5. The road to paradise : building the Trans-Asia Highway ; 6. The problem of urban civilization on Saigon's edge -- Conclusion: What edges do.

ISBN:

9780816656059 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816656053 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816656066 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816656061 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urbanization Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City.
Urban anthropology Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City.
City and town life Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City.
Sociology, Urban Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City.
Urbanisation Viêt-nam Hô Chi Minh-Ville.
Anthropologie urbaine Viêt-nam Hô Chi Minh-Ville.
Vie urbaine Viêt-nam Hô Chi Minh-Ville.
Sociologie urbaine Viêt-nam Hô Chi Minh-Ville.
City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban anthropology.
Urbanization.
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272250
Call No.: BIB 205501
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available