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Index

Addiss, Stephen 185

Adorno, Theodor W. 12, 35

Agamben, Giorgio 24, 148

Alphen, Ernst van 173

American Civil War, ghosts of 14

American diplomatic ties with Vietnam, and MIA discoveries 44–5, 57

   use of Vietnamese medium 57

American War, Vietnamese interpretation of 13, 14–15

   see also Vietnam War

ancestor worship

   domestic rite 98

   external rite 98–9

   and ghosts of children 116

   see also domestic ritual space; ghosts

Anderson, Benedict 45, 175

Antigone, see Butler; Hegel

Appadurai, Arjun 65

Appy, Christian 12, 169, 170, 182, 196

Arendt, Hannah 156, 159

Ariès, Philippe 36

Arquilla, John 67–8

art money, 146

August Revolution 11

Avineri, Shlomo 195, 196


Ba Chua Tien, mother goddess 120

“Ba Me Que” 91

   origins of 91

Bailey, Susan 175

Bao Ninh 1, 27, 48, 169, 180

Bataille, George 147, 148

Bauman, Zygmunt 185, 188

Benjamin, Walter 2, 42, 167

Berlin Wall, fall of 65

Bernstein, Richard 172

Bertrand, Didier 172, 181, 186

Bettleheim, Bruno 187

Bibby, Michael 13, 170, 171

Bien, body-finder 109–11, 112–15

   family tradition and Lotus Flower (Lien Hoa) 128

   mobility of 115

   prison message from Lotus Flower 126

   soul-searching 117

biological classification of bones 49

   problems of identification 50

bipolarity of left and right 156

Bloch, Ernest 16

Bloch, Maurice 22, 23, 147, 173, 174, 185, 189, 193, 194, 195

Bobbio, Norberto 160

bodies, amalgam of past and present 35–6

   see also xac

body-finding, through spirits 53–4, 109–10, 111–15

Bohannan, Paul 146–7

bond of bereavement 101

Borneman, John 176

Bradley, Mark P. 31, 179

Brigham, Robert K. 94, 170

Brocheux, Pierre 194

Buchli, Victor 171

Butler, Judith 159, 162, 163, 165, 187, 195


Ca Ong, spirit of whale 117

Cadière, Léopold 87, 107, 148, 171, 188, 189

capitalism, domination of 29–30

Carsten, Janet 130–1, 168

Casey, Edward 24, 89, 186

Castells, Manuel 182

censorship, of literature about ghosts 11

Chien Xem Ma (medium) 53–4

   involvement of family in searches 54–6

   and party officials 57–8

   and US MIA missions 57

children of people strategy 92–3

Chile, legacy of Pinochet 31

civil war, and war ghosts 13, 14

Clinton, President Bill, visit to Hanoi 44, 145

   POW/MIA issues 47

clothing, as votive offering

   changes in tradition 142

   utility value for dead 143

Co Chin Trung Thien; see Impartial Heaven

co so activists 70–1, 73, 94, 95–6

Co Tien 109

Codere, Helen 190

coexistence of life and death 7, 36

coffin making, boom in 28

coffins, use as magical instrument 38–9

   see also funerals

cold war

   decomposition of 66–7

      results of decomposition 62–3

   definition of state 161

   global experience of 31, 64

      differences in 65

      local forms of 66

   new social order 159–60

   ordering 30

   political crisis in moral community of kinship 158–9

   political use of MIA problem 46–7

   position of left and right 160

   reality of mass death 4–5, 160

   rejection of terms 156

   two-dimensional history of 66, 80–1

collaborators

   classification of 74–5

   civilian support networks 73–4

   and neighbourhood surveillance 73

Comaroff, Jean 175, 178

Comaroff, John 175

commemorative practices in Vietnam 48, 164

   changes in tradition 5, 35, 48–9, 59–61

   desire to remember 105

   domestic ritual 86, 140–1

      and shifts in meaning 86

   official state practices 24–5, 83, 140

communist authority in Vietnam, political use of POWs 47

Condominas, George 171, 183

Cooper, Nicola 169

Cumings, Bruce 4, 168, 169, 184


Dai Tien, chief of security in other world, 119

   anger at question on former life 133

   interrogation of Lotus Flower (Lien Hoa) 127

dead, the

   communication with

      Chien Xem Ma 53–6

      Huynh Phung 51–3

      official requests for 56

      loosening of state control 61

   culture of 35–6

   obstacles to memory 58

   relations with living 41, 42–3

   rights to burial 163

death

   ambidextrous human body 157, 162

   dual religious symbolism 156–7

   and wealth, see money; prosperity; votive offerings; wealth

death at home (chet nha), coexistence with death in the street 86

death in the street (chet duong) 7, 20, 163–4

   commemorative practices 86

   and displaced spirits 89, 99, 103

   imprisonment of souls 129

Degung Santikarma 176

Denish, Bette 177

desertion, and co so mothers 94, 95–6

Dickens, Charles 3, 192

Do La money 141–2

   designs of 144

   disruption of hierarchy of other worlds 153

   duality of meanings 144–5, 147, 150–1

   effect on classification of spirits 151–2

   opposition from deities 145–6, 153

   see also Sharpshooter; votive offerings

domestic ritual space

   change in 58

   heroic death certificates 59

   increasing privacy and coexistence of old and new era 59–60

   moral and political practice 159

Don Lam 26, 97, 101

Dong Vinh 96

Dror, Olga 186

Duiker, William J. 168, 169, 185, 186, 191, 196

Duong Thu Huong 1, 169

Durand, Maurice 181, 184, 187, 188

Durkheim, Emile 7, 87, 99, 100, 152

Dwyer, Leslie 176


Eades, Jeremy S. 172

economic renovation in Vietnam (doi moi ) 29

   effect on reburials 33

Eliade, Mircea 188

encounters with ghosts 36–40

Endres, Kirsten W. 191

Esbenshade, Richard S. 167

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 157, 173

exhumation of missing soldiers 44

   official American delegations 44


Fall, B. B. 180

families, basic to civil society 160, 161

family record system (ho so) 74–5

   result of use 75

Farell, Kirby 179

Faris, Wendy B. 168

festivals, held by emigrant communities 91

Feuchtwang, Stephan 147, 176, 192

Fforde, Adam 175

Field, Douglas 182

financial globalization 30

Finucane, Ronald C. 167

Fischer, Michael M. J. 172

France, and ghosts of First World War 14

French war ghosts, in Vietnam 14

funerals, orientation of coffin 136

   see also money; votive offerings


Gaddis, John Lewis 168

Gates, Hill 147

Geertz, Clifford 178, 190, 194

Gennep, Arnold van 24, 152, 173, 189

Geschiere, Peter 175

ghost of Vietnam, and American society 12, 165

ghosts

   absence in social theory 23–4

   and ancestors 20, 21–2, 24–5, 87, 88–9, 100, 157

   background circumstances of death 3, 5, 42

   ceremonial time for 133

   concept of the stranger 20–1, 100, 102

   domestic ritual space 58

   history of mass displacement 89, 104

   importance of money for 152

   interest in humans 19, 88, 165

   lack of discrimination against former enemy 26–7, 37–8

   meanings of apparitions 10, 18–19

   notion of place and home 101, 131

   oblivious to modern ideologies 135–6

   of prisoners 72

   places for worship of (khom) 34

   political 21, 62–3, 158

   public knowledge of 17

   relational reference to 109

   and religious revival 85

   and revolutionary cultural policies 11

   sensitivity to 105

   social/political obstacles to memory 58

   state’s attitude to 10–11, 24–5

   transformation to mobile deity 117

      stages of 118

   transitional status of 131

   use in narrative 2

      in classical literature 87–8

      in European literature 2–3

      in Vietnam 2, 3

   Vietnamese conception of 7

   wandering souls (co bac) 16, 100, 131, 152(see also Nguyen Du)

      encounters with 16, 36–40

      and troublesome ghosts 17–18, 37, 39–40, 113–15

   see also Chien Xem Ma; kinship practice; Lotus Flower; ritual revival; the stranger; transformative spirits; votive offerings

Gibson, J. J. 154

Gibson, James W. 179

Giddens, Anthony 29–30, 159–60, 161, 182

Giebel, Christopher 190, 191

Gillis, John R. 46, 175

Giran, Paul 185

global order

   change in 64–5

   and experiences of cold war 65, 66

   and network warfare 67–8

globalization, meeting between Clinton and Le Kha Phien 145

Gluckman, Max 182

Gombrich E. H. 192, 194

gods and goddesses

   historical backgrounds 119, 134

   spiritual remains of violent death 130

   votive money 143

      anti Do La sentiment 145–6

      superior currency 148

   see also Impartial Heaven; Sharpshooter

Grandin, Greg 4, 168, 176

Greece, civil war in 32

Green, Sarah F. 176

Gulf War, and memory of Vietnam War 12


Habermas, Jürgen 178

Hann, Chris M. 176, 182

Hardy, Andrew 175, 187

Harrell, Stevan 174, 188, 189

Harrison, Simon 182

Hart, Keith 147, 191

Hartingh, Bertrand de 174

Hassard, John 182

Hastrup, Kirsten 172

Hawley, Thomas M. 179–80

Hayden, Robert M. 167, 177

heavy soul, and phantom salt 104

Hefner, Robert W. 175

Hegel, G. W. F. 158–9, 161, 162–3

Hellman, John 179

heroic death certificates 59, 61–2, 75

Heroic Mothers of Vietnam 33, 52, 136, 138

Hertz, Robert 24, 89, 152, 156–7, 162, 165

Hickey, Gerald 87, 193

Hiebert, Murray 177, 180

history

   relationship with memory 12–13

   use of fiction in post socialist society 2

Ho Chi Minh 174

Ho Si Hiep 185

ho so reports, see family record system

Hobsbawm, Eric 175

Hochschild, Adam 167

homesickness 90–1

   during French war 91

   and songs 93–4

   used by revolutionary networks 94

Honig, Bonnie 173

Hoopes, Townsend 183

Horkheimer, Max 12, 35

Hou Ching-lang 137

Hugh-Jones, Stephen 189

Humphrey, Caroline 168, 175

Hunter, Allen 176

Hutton, Will 176, 182

Huu Ngoc 171, 184, 185, 189

Huynh Lua 186

Huynh Phung, reburial of 51–3

   transformation to thanh 108

Huynh Sanh Thong 184, 185


Impartial Heaven (Co Chin Trung Thien) 150

   diplomacy of 125

   established deity 119

   and Ho Chi Minh 134

   mobility of 120

   network of followers 119, 122

   questions to 133

      on family life 134

      on war 134

Independence War with France 11

Indonesia, end of cold war 31

Ingold, Tim 99

investment, importance for Adam Smith 138

Isaac, Jeffrey C. 156, 172

Isaacs, Arnold R. 170


Jackson, Michael 168

Jacobs, Seth 169

Jamieson, Neil L. 175, 179, 194

Jason, Philip K. 170

Jouin, Bernard Y. 190

Jun Jing 168, 176

Just, Ward 182


Kaldor, Mary 168, 176, 183, 195

Kellner, Douglas 169, 184

Kendall, Laurel 194

Kerkvliet, Benedict J. Tria 175

Kern, Stephen 173, 193

Keynes, J. M. 139

Kim, Dong-Chun 176

kinship relations 6, 8, 97–8, 103

   association with the stranger 100–1

   fictive kinship 83, 84–5, 96, 103, 117, 118, 130–1, 161

   good and bad death 161, 162, 164

   mass death and displacement 149–50, 165

      through civil war 162, 163

   new model after cold war 159–60, 161

   political crisis in 158–9

   transformation of spirit 130

   see also Lotus Flower; Hegel; surrogate motherhood

Klein, Christina 182

Kolko, Gabriel 191

Kundera, Milan 2, 167

Kwon, Heonik 168, 171, 172, 174, 177, 181, 183, 191, 193

Ky

   history of 123–4

   spirit network 124

   see also Impartial Heaven; Sharpshooter


La Fontaine, J. S. 187

LaFeber, Walter 4, 168, 182

Lambek, Michael 178

Lap, amputee of Tiger Temple community

   biography of 77, 82

   and prison survival 77

      life after prison 77–8

   strength of community 78–9

   Temple worship 78–9

   US and VC blame for amputation 75–7, 79

Laqueur, Thomas 61

Latour, Bruno 182

Law, John 11, 16, 108, 182

Le Duy Anh 186

Le Hong Ly 194

Le Huu Khoa 177, 187

Le Minh Khue 169

Leach, Edmund 173

Leffler, Melvyn P. 167

Lendon, J. E. 179

Lessnoff, Michael H. 191

Lévinas, Emmanuel 129

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 18

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien 18

Lewis, Belinda 167

liberation from grievance, see transformative spirits

Lien Hoa, see Lotus Flower

light soul, and phantom salt 104

   communication with other souls 104

“Long Me” 90, 91

   banned by communist authority 93

   and homesickness 93–4

Lotus Flower (Lien Hoa), spirit of 109–13, 115, 129, 132

   and ghosts of children 116

   introduction of other wandering spirits 116, 127

   letter from prison 126

   liberation and kinship 131

   reintroduction to families 116

   soul-searching 117

   theft of talismans 126–7

   transformation to goddess 120, 127, 150

   visit from comrade to Bien’s family 126

Löwith, Karl 196

Lucas, Gavin 171

Luong, Hy Van 97–8, 169, 175, 177, 178, 183


Macfarlane, Alan 172

Mackay, Charles 168, 188

magic, post socialist 41

   of spiritual remains from violent death 97

Malarney, Shaun K. 48, 168, 169, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177, 180, 181, 190, 191

Malinowski, Bronislow 190

Manyin, Mark E. 180

Márquez, Gabriel García 4

Marr, David G. 169

Marx, Karl 16, 147, 194, 196

mass death

   and cold war paradigm 4–5, 31–2, 158

   development of voluntary informal networks 83, 84–5

   and history of left and right 160

   importance in history 5, 27

   moral identity of ghosts 149

   revival of religious practices 83, 85, 140

   unresolved issues in central Europe 32

   in Western Europe after First World War 149

      mass displacement

   development of histories 6, 27, 160

   and displaced afterlife 85–6, 99, 165

   see also death in the street

mass reburial movement 32–4

Maurer, Bill 193

Mauss, Marcel 190

Mazower, Mark 176, 182

McCreery, John 191

McMahon, Robert 170

mediums, use in MIA missions 52–4

   pastoral role 54–6

Mendel, Ruth 175

Merleau-Ponty, M. 79

MIA missions 49

   communication with the dead 50

Michnick, Adam 167

Middleton, John 184, 195

missing bodies

   American preoccupation with 46

   in armed forces 46

   collaboration between ritualists and governing body 52–3

      Chien Xem Ma 53–4

   Vietnamese priority 48

   see also death in the street; war veterans

modern memory 84

monetization, and growth of individiual freedom 146, 147

   cultural context 154

   Tiv exchange system 146–7

money, and ritual action 8, 136

   burning of 139, 141

      and liberation from grievance 152

      memory-related 153

   complexity of imaginary economy 146

   different meanings of 148, 153

   dollar ritual notes 141–2, 143

   familiarity of currency 141

   foreign currency 135

   historically specific 142–3

   replica money 138, 139

   superiority of deities 148

   transaction between human and ghost 153

   see also Do La money; votive offerings

money, in real economy, separate functions of coins and metal 148

Mong Linh Cong Chua, and Bo Thien Nga 121

Moore, Henrietta L. 42

Mosse, George 175

Mueggler, Eric 168, 176

Mydans, Seth 180


Narayan, Kirin 172

Nashel, Jonathan 176

native place, love of 90–1

   expressed in song 90, 91

   personified by mother 92

Neale, Jonathan 170

networks

   concept of 67

      in Vietnam 68–9, 80

   neighbourhood surveillance 73

   and resolution of conflict 80, 81

   social and civil 70–1, 81

   of spirits 121

   Vietcong revolutionary cells 69–70

Neu, Charles E. 170

Nghe Chien Xa, see Sharpshooter

Ngo Duc Thinh 97, 177

Nguyen Dang Thuc 187

Nguyen Du 87–8, 98, 165, 184

Nguyen Duy Hinh 178, 186

Nguyen Huy Thiep 169

Nguyen Khac Vien 88, 184, 185, 186

Nguyen Kien 188

Nguyen Minh San 186

Nguyen Tan Cu 190

Nguyen Thach Giang 184

Nguyen Thang 187

Nguyen Tran-Huan 184

Nguyen Van Hoan 184, 185

Nguyen Van Huyen 181, 186, 187, 190

Nguyen Van Ky 185

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 105

Norton, Barley 178, 189


Ortner, Sherry 19


Parry, Jonathan 147, 174, 185, 188, 193, 194

patriots, ho so reports 74–5

Pelley, Patricia M. 48, 169, 196

Peters, Major Ralph, network war 67–8

Petersen, Douglas, MIA recovery 47

Pham Con Son 177

Pham Duy 26

Pham Ngo Minh 186

Pham Thi Hoai 169

Phan Cam Thuong 190

Phan Huy Dong 15

Phan Ke Binh 171, 184, 188

Phan Thanh Hao 177, 181

phantom salt 104, 105

Pike, Douglas E. 180, 181, 183

Pitt-Rivers, Julian 172

Poggi, Gianfranco 193

political history, use of ghosts in post-socialist tradition 3

political identity 79–80

   see also collaborators

political use of POW/MIA issues 46–7, 49

Porter, Gareth 175

post-socialism, differences in definition 31–2

potlatch rites, of native Americans 190

Powell, Colin 12, 13, 170

Prickett, Stephen 167

prosperity

   comparison with European philosophy 137–9

   and funeral rites 136

   life as a bank loan 137

   sharing with the dead 141

public commemoration of war heroes 24–5


Quang Nam Province Communist Party

   collaboration with ritual specialists 52–3, 56

   reaction to market economy reform 51–2

   reburial of Huynh Phung 51

   recovery of missing civilian bodies 56–7

Quy Ba Chan, see Red Monster


reburial, of Huynh Phung 52

   effect of market reform 33–4

      and postwar politics 49

   of unearthed bones 32–3, 43

   see also Lotus Flower; ritual revival

Red Monster (Quy Ba Chan or Than Do/Quy Do) 121, 122–4

   battle with Sharpshooter 124–5

   and Impartial Heaven 125

Red Seed 150

   battle between Red Monster and Sharpshooter 124, 132

   relationship with Sharpshooter 125–6

   struggle for liberation 132

   symbolic transformation 130

religious symbols 22

   and ghosts 22–3

   representation of right and left 156–7

religious tradition, and mother of the home-place 96–7

religious worship

   collective and domestic rites 98, 101, 103

   and political tolerance 29

   society’s exposure to global market 29

remembrance, and liberation of spirits 129, 154, 164

renovation of ancestral home and tombs 34

reunification, of Vietnam 11

Rev, Istvan 2, 167

reversible dualism 157

revolutionary cultural campaigns 11–12

revolutionary songs, and motherhood 92

Rich, Frank 170

ritual actors 20, 21–2

   in death commemoration 154

ritual currencies 139

   competing currencies 153

   increasing dollarization 143

ritual revival 34, 41

   body-finding missions 50

      collaboration with governing body 52–4, 56

   breaking open the prison 128

   display of wealth 140

   family reburials 61–2

   and human displacement 81

   the missing and the unknown 99

   see also mass death; Nguyen Du

road accidents, and transformative spirits 128

Roberts, Nancy 170

Robin, Ron 182

Robinson, Geoffrey 176

Ronfeldt, David 67–8

Roseberry, William 167

Rowlands, Michael 175, 179

Roxborough, Ian 170

Ruddick, Sara 185


Sahlins, Marshall 188, 191

sanctions, postwar use of 47

Sanders, Todd 42

Schell, Jonathan 171

Schlecker, Marcus 92, 169, 187, 191

Schmitt, Jean-Claude 12, 16, 167, 172, 173, 196

Schneider, Mark 16

Scott, James C. 25, 194

Scott, James M. 182

Seaman, Gary 192

security studies, importance of networks 67–8

Shannon, Christopher 182

Sharpshooter (Nghe Chien Xa) 120–1, 122, 150

   battle with Red Monster 124–5

   questions to 133

      on ideology of war 135–6, 155

   request for local money 135, 136, 145, 153, 154–5, 164

Sheehan, Neil 42

Shryock, Andrew 172

Sibley, Brian 192

Simmel, Georg 7, 8, 20, 23, 100, 102, 139, 143, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 173, 187, 194

Simon, Pierre J. 178

Simon-Barouh, Ida 178

Smith, Adam 137–8

social democracy, post-cold war 159–60

social transformation in Vietnam 28–9

   effect of devastating war 31–2

   effect of economic security 30

   ritual revival 34

   transition from cold war 30

   see also religious worship

societal unity

   kinship practice 100–1

   and mobility and liberty 100

   and religious ritual 100

   see also Stranger, the

socio-cultural dimension of cold war 66, 85

   and death in the street 163–4

   Vietnamese revolution 80–1, 83see also kinship; networks

songs, as political and military instruments 93

Sophocles 158, 196

Soul Guide, funeral specialist 136

soul

   duality in Vietnamese tradition 105–6

   inversion of order after death 106–7

   retention of vital life forces 107

   see also xac

South Korea, mass death in 32

specters of history, in former eastern-bloc countries 2, 165

spirit networks 119, 121

   features of 121–2

   see also Ky

spirit water, and phantom salt 104

Stannard, David E. 191

state politics of commemoration 24–5, 83, 140

   and countermovement 83, 84

stranger, the

   concept of 19–20, 24

   symbol of life 102

   symbolic construction of social identity 23

   and Vietnamese conception of ghosts 20–1

Steiner, George 195

Stern, Lewis M. 177, 178

Stern, Robert 195

Stern, Steve 31

Stewart, Charles 174

Strathern, Marilyn 66, 154, 189

street children, and revolutionary networks 70

Summerfield, Derek 171

Sunday Times, The 192

surrogate motherhood 92–3

   belief in distant reciprocal action 96

   kinship with enemy soldiers 94, 95–6

   support for both sides 95


Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 168, 176, 177, 180, 196

Tan Viet 177, 178

Taussig, Michael 21, 101, 173, 194

Taylor, Keith, W. 97

Taylor, Philip 29, 41, 97, 132, 150, 169, 172, 180, 181, 186, 189, 191, 194

Teiser, Stephen F. 131, 173, 184, 191, 196

terrorist attacks, and networks 67, 68

Tet Trung Nguyen, and wandering ghosts 133

Thai Thi Bich Lien 186

Thien Do 97, 130

Thompson, E. P. 80

Tiger Temple, community of 71–2

   ceremonial calendar 78–9, 86

   connections between 78

   fear of prisoners’ ghosts 72

   political identities 72, 75, 79–80, 95

      problems with 73

   support networks 73–4, 81

   see also Lap

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

   anonymity of 45–6

   change in public approach to 46

tombs

   removal for roadworks 38

   renovation of 34

      in “Cam Re” 36

trade agreement, between US and Vietnam 64

tradition

   attitude of modern Vietnamese state 10–11

   commemoration of war dead versus ancestor worship in North Vietnam 11–12, 24–5

   wandering souls 16

Tran Bach Dang 177

Tran Huien An 185

Tran Ngoc Them 172

transformative spirits 119, 150, 164–5

   historical circumstances of death 132

   liability of the living 129

   liberation from grievance 128–9, 132, 152–3, 164, 165

   social ambiguity of 131

   will for freedom 129

Trullinger, James W. 171, 183

Truong Chinh 171, 184

Turner, Karen 177, 181

Turner, Victor 183


Unger, Ann Helen 188

Unger, Walter 188

United States Senate 180

urban communities, invented by war 71–2

US Department of State 180


Van Cao 174

Van Le 1

Verdery, Katherine 4, 30, 32, 168

Vietcong revolutionary cells

   case study in Danang Hospital 69–70

   infrastructure of 69

   and social networks 70–1

Vietcong support network, expansion of 73–4

Vietnam and World Bank 177

Vietnam War

   American interpretation of 13, 84

   network-type experience 68

   new interpretation of 1

   post-World War II origins 64

   prolonged ending of 64

Vietnamese state, and money burning 139, 139–40

Villa, Dana R. 195

Voisé, Waldemar 189

Volcker, Paul A. 176

votive offerings 10, 11, 17, 34, 87–8, 100, 133, 136, 137, 141, 143–4

   changes in meaning 142

   Chinese spirit money 147

   in classical lierature 87–8

   classification of spirit 148

   hierarchy of values between gods, ancestors and ghosts 148, 151

   historical familiarity of objects 142–4

   replicas of coins 139

   see also Do La money

Vu Ngoc Khanh 180, 188

Vylder, Stafan de 175


Wagner, Roy 106–7, 183

war dead

   differing perspectives of 14

   refugees 15

war ghosts

   destruction of war 15

   memory of war 13

   natural phenomenon 16

   state rejection of 25–6

war refugees, encouragement to return to homeland 15

war veterans, welfare of, MIA issues 44–5

warfare, post-modern 67, 68, 81

   in Vietnam 68–9

Watson, Rubie S. 168

wealth creation, and mass suffering 148

wealth display, and funerals 137, 138, 140

Weber, Max 16, 138

Werbner, Richard 181

Weschler, Lawrence 192

Westad, Odd Arne 168, 181, 182

Whitfield, Stephen J. 66, 180

Williams, Robert R. 195

Williams, Tony 179, 180

Winter, Jay 14, 45, 83–4, 85, 101, 150, 178, 181

Wolf, Arthur P. 87, 88–9, 101, 131, 172, 174

Woodside, Alexander B. 183

First World War and modern memory 84


xac, Vietnamese concept of 35–6, 107

   body-lending 107–8

   exit of spirit from body 108–9

   see also Lien Hoa


Yang, Mayfair 147, 194

Young, John W. 176

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