Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

This is the book I needed, but it didn’t come with the papercover that normally is attached to hardcover books. What’s up with that? Don’t list as a normal book if you aren’t going to give me the full book. Other than that, the book is okay.

At the middle of the century the deadly serious Jesuit teaching order who had long since evangelized the East and learned those languages founded the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, who now employ my colleague in ethnography and junior contemporary Ann Marie Leshkowich who has been talking for decades now with the women of the Ben Thanh market in Saigon. Ann Marie and her friends address the central issue of Vietnamese studies and all of us who engage with the life world from the world of institutions. How do we bring the insight of those engaged with practical matters to discussion among those whose daily work is tell us all what to do and what to think about it?[from my longer review elsewhere]