Lorraine Aragon
Lorraine Aragon is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Resources created by Lorraine Aragon
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- Life in a sea port
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 8
- Hoi An is a fishing village that has been a stop on the merchant ship trade route since at least the 1700s. Coastal ports throughout Southeast Asia developed starting in the first millennium A.D. as maritime trade routes expanded between China and India. The...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Living in the field
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 17
- Highland families may use these small houses on a permanent basis, especially if they are near permanent wet-rice fields. Yet the houses sometimes are moved or abandoned when families cultivate other fields during different years or seasons. The canal running...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Living on an island
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 2
- Cat Ba is a main point of departure for touring the scenic rocky islands by boat.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Magical poisoned arrows
- In The Ramayana, page 5.7
- Hanuman in disguise as a bear watches Ravana's demons making magical poisoned arrows, as seen in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Ravana's demon son Intarachit sits upon a royal daybed in the forest in front of a giant tree stump as he makes the arrows....
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Making rubber
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 12
- Rubber is an elastic latex from the Hevea braziliensis tree that is coagulated, or turned from liquid to semi-solid form. Waterproof and elastic, rubber is used for sports balls, vehicle tires, and many other practical items manufactured...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Making salt
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 7
- This wide landscape view of salt-making fields along the coast south of Nha Trang shows sea water evaporating in some front and back fields, while salt is nearly ready for harvest in the middle fields. This type of salt production is a low-cost technology...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A marriage of cultures
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 5
- With French and general Western media influence, many Vietnamese like to wear white or other color European-style gowns for at least some events in their multi-part marriage ceremonies. Unlike in the U.S., Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians usually participate...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The marriage of Rama and Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 1.8
- A royal pavilion scene on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the wedding of Sita and Rama. On the central platform, Sita sits at the left and Rama at the right of a tall footed dish, designed to represent ceremonial foods on a mound of rice. Rama,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The monkey god Hanuman
- In The Ramayana, page 3.1
- This image of the monkey god Hanuman on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows him perched on one knee wearing golden royal Thai clothes. Hanuman's mouth is open and his larger-than-human teeth are visible. Hanuman has made himself gigantic and...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Montagnards
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13
- The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A monument to war crimes
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 14
- When post-war relations between Vietnam and the U.S. improved following former Secretary of State Robert McNamara's public annoncement that U.S. participation in the war was a mistake, this stone monument was moved to a less conspicuous location and the nearby...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- My Lai
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 9
- In 1968, U.S. forces considered the My Lai area to be a stronghold of Communist Vietnamese fighters (known as Vietcong) and their sympathizers. Repeated bombing of the region only increased the support of local civilians for the Communist fighters. After an...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- National dress
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 5
- Vietnamese national women's dress includes a long, high-necked silk tunic that is slit at the sides to the waist. Here the solid-color, pastel tunics are worn over matching full-length skirts, common to northern Vietnam, but they also are worn over white or...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A new language
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 4
- Once it became a French “protectorate” with puppet emperors, Vietnamese upper class leaders fiercely debated the relative merits of Chinese Confucian versus Western European knowledge and power. By the 1920s, though, they decided to adopt
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- A new plot
- In The Ramayana, page 4.2
- In this Emerald Buddha Temple mural scene, the demon king Ravana instructs his niece to imitate Sita's appearance and behavior. Ravana speaks and gestures his instructions from a high palace veranda to his young and beautiful niece who sits respectfully on...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A new religion
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 18
- This elaborate temple at Tay Ninh, located about 60 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, was constructed between 1933 and 1955. The congregation, seen from behind, sits cross-legged on the floor with their hands held up in front of their chests. White robes...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Off to market
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 21
- Small livestock raised on nearby farms are delivered to market this way so that customers can buy them alive. The buyers can choose the healthiest birds, keep the animals alive until they are needed for food, and be assured of purchasing fresh meat. These...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- On the road
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 13
- Rugged buses like this one typically carry passengers, including merchants with their wares, to and from urban market locations.
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- On wheels
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 15
- On this modern metal bridge at Hué, a woman and child bicycle on the right while in the middle, women and men move faster on motorcycles. In the warm climate and frugal economic conditions of Southeast Asia, motorcycles and motor scooters are practical and...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A passage for deities
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 6
- This statue guards the entrance to an ornately carved central tower at Banteay Srei Temple. The false door behind the statue is made of stone; the original doors used by Khmer worshippers were made of wood and long ago deteriorated in the humid, tropical weather....
- By Lorraine Aragon.
