Discovering Craft Villages in Vietnam
Ten itineraries around Hà Nội
With their festivals and traditional industries, their commun halls, pagodas, temples, and vernacular buildings, the villages around Hà Nội possess a rich body of cultural, architectural and craft heritage. Less than one hour from the capital are over 500 specialist craft villages, producing an array of religious or artistic objects, as well as food products, industrial goods, textiles, basketware and much more. Despite the trials and tribulations Vietnam has endured, these traditions have rem...
Éditeur : IRD Éditions, Éditions Thê Gioi
Lieu d’édition : Marseille
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 19 novembre 2018
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7099-2228-9
DOI : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.26049
Collection : Hors collection
Année d’édition : 2016
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-7099-2233-3
Nombre de pages : 326
Sylvie Fanchette
Preface to the new editionMichael Digregorio
PrefaceAncient craft amid by village cultural heritage
Itineraries of craft villages and of cultural heritage
With their festivals and traditional industries, their commun halls, pagodas, temples, and vernacular buildings, the villages around Hà Nội possess a rich body of cultural, architectural and craft heritage. Less than one hour from the capital are over 500 specialist craft villages, producing an array of religious or artistic objects, as well as food products, industrial goods, textiles, basketware and much more. Despite the trials and tribulations Vietnam has endured, these traditions have remained alive; today they constitute the basis of material, social and spiritual culture among the village communities of the Red River delta.
The artisans themselves, and their local institutions, see cultural tourism as a way of further improving the fortunes of the craft village communities and bringing their heritage to wider attention. Until recently, few guides or tourists had forayed into these settlements, some of which are lost in the maze of routes and tracks that criss-cross the rice paddies of the Hà Nội hinterland. The history and skills they harbour have been inaccessible to all but a few specialists. Few of the villages are signposted, yet between them they are home to three quarters of the architectural, religious and craft heritage of the upper delta.
This book, the fruit of several years' research by specialists working in northern Vietnam, comprises ten itineraries, blending potted histories, legends, descriptions of craft techniques, signposted walks and maps, designed to introduce travellers and lovers of Vietnamese culture to forty or so villages around Hà Nội. Many of us have seen their wares on sale in shops in and around the 36 streets of Hà Nội Old Quarter or in other cities in West. This book is about the true lives and enduring skills of the nameless artisans who made them.
Doctorate in geography from the University of Paris VIII. Since October 1993, she has been a researcher for IRD, the Research Institute for Development. She studies the urbanisation process of the countryside in densely populated deltas (the Red River, the Nile, the Niger, etc.). She has lived in Vietnam for several years and leads a research programme investigating “the development of craft villages in the context of the peri-urbanisation process around Hà Nội”.
Nicholas Stedman (trad.)
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