Index
Index 213 ambidexterity, 17–18, 25, 27, 80–81, 102, 156 ambiguity: and ambidexterity, 94, 100; classificatory, 24, 93–95, 118–19, 133, 172 American (Vietnam) War: as civil war, 159–60, 161; demilitarization of death in, 18–19; moral authority of veterans of, 113–15; reality of, 42–43; regional variation in memory of, 20, 67, 160 Ames, Roger, 71, 188n28 An Bang, 38, 147–48, 149 ancestor worship: belief in ghosts and, 156; centrality in, 26; contrasted with hero worship, 4–5, 20–21, 154–55, 174, 178; dualism of, 23, 155–56; function of, 4; hierarchical principal of, 21; incorporation of both sides of war in, 162–63; intervillage network of, 41–42; ong ba, 92; practical values of, 82–83; problems in, 70–73; revival of, 3, 23, 68, 110–12, 154, 161–63; rules for collaboration in, 75; shrines and altars of, 6, 79–81, 90; transvaluation of figure and ground in, 180. See also death-remembrance ritual; temples Anderson, Benedict, 104 Antigone, 67–68 Antze, Paul, 122 Arendt, Hannah, 5 Ba Ba Linh, 165–71, 172 Ba Lap, 45, 46–47, 53, 95–96, 132; “return” of husband of, 96–100, 151 Battaglia, Debbora, 14, 187–88n13 Baudrillard, Jean, 19–20 Bauman, Zygmund, 94 Bloch, Maurice, 14, 16, 121, 122 Boas, Franz, 87 Boddy, Janice, 203–4n25 Bodnar, John, 147 Borton, Lady, 15–16 Bradley, Mark, 157, 158 Buddhism, 72 burial: secondary, 122; substitutive, 134– 35, 207–8n16. See also mass graves; reburial Cadière, Léopold, 11, 65, 91, 199n15 Cam An, 40, 41 Cam Ha, 44 Cam Thanh, 41 Cao Dai sect, 42 Carsten, Janet, 13 Casey, Edward, 7, 92 children: death-remembrance ritual for, 70–72; spirits of, 73–74; war dead enter domain of ancestors, 75–76 Chomsky, Noam, 30 civilian massacres, xi; in American War, 29–33; effect on Vietcong of, 48; in French War, 167; identity of victims of, 58; marginalization of dead from, 68; as tragic death, 19; types of, 29–30 Cold War: in Asia, 156; as civil war, 20, 159–61; death in, 2, 19, 72–73; decomposition of, 156, 158, 164; myth of global experience of, 161; parallax Cold War (continued) vision and, 20, 156–59; postcolonial view of, 160–61; postrevisionist approaches to, 157–58; transcending the, 183; in village, 53–59, 160 Cole, Jennifer, 88–89 Combined Action program, 31–32 Communist Party, 36, 48 Confucianism, 20, 70–72, 74 Connerton, Paul, 23, 62 Con Ninh, 31, 39, 40, 43 co so cach mang, 40 Cubism, 179–80 Cumings, Bruce, 156, 157, 158 cung gio, 60, 76 Da Nang, 11–12, 51 dead: hierarchy of, 154; limnality of tragic, 12; treated as if alive, 11–12, 62–63, 84. See also ancestor worship; ghosts/spirits death: democracy of, 17, 21; differentiation between soldier and villager in, 19–20, 125; fateful, 123–24; “good” and “bad,” 7, 12–16, 89–91, 92, 124– 26, 139; grievous, 13, 125–27; at home, 89; just and unjust, 123; rehabilitation into domestic ritual of tragic, 152; “in the street,” 15, 24, 89–90; traditional classification of, 207n9; tragic, 4–5, 13–14, 19, 24, 93; universality of tragic, 93. See also mass death; war heroes/heroic death death-remembrance ritual: for children, 70–72; dual structure of, 6, 23, 90–92; ghosts at, 89; house-side vs. street-side, 91–92; movement in, 10, 23, 24, 90– 91, 94, 181; multiple, simultaneous performance of, 61; as store of historical evidence, 60–64; for war martyrs, 74. See also ancestor worship Derrida, Jacques, 210n32 Dirlik, Arif, 157 Don Lam, 101 dualism: of ancestor worship, 6, 23, 90– 92, 155–56; reversible, 17 Duiker, William, 107, 163 Dumont, Louis, 17 Durkheim, Emile, 91, 92, 121–22 Errington, Shelly, 26 esthetics, 181 fate, 123–24 fortune-teller, 151 Fox, James, 13 French War, 36–37, 39, 167 funerals, 11–12, 20, 120 Fussell, Paul, 61 Geertz, Clifford, 26 genealogical model, 21–22 geopolitical parallax, 156–59 ghosts/spirits: alienation among, 149–50; at altar-opening ceremonies, 79–80; ancestors and, 203n19; anonymous, 87, 90, 92, 101; becoming ancestors, 100, 101; as bound and unbound in time and space, 179; of children, 73– 74; co bac, 92; diversity of, 101, 175; as foreigners, 92–93, 172; of foreign soldiers, 173–74; form of address for, 12; in Ha Gia, 151; in Ha My, 101, 118–19, 151; individuality of enshrined , 165, 172, 174; individuation process of, 87; intrusive, 87–88...
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