Shattered World

Adaptation and Survival Among Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War

• Author(s): Gerald Cannon Hickey,
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Pages: 297
• ISBN_10: 0812231724
  ISBN_13: 9780812231724
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War , History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies , Social Science / Indigenous Studies ,

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Examines the cultures of ten groups native to the central highlands of Vietnam, focusing on the ways in which their cultures have been shaped by the necessity for adaptation to their mountain environment.