Trading Old Textiles: The Selective Diversification of Highland Livelihoods in Northern Vietnam

摘要: This paper aims to advance our understandings of rural Hmong livelihoods in Northern Vietnam. It investigates the local production and trade dynamics that link a number highland minority women province Lao Cai local, national, global networks. Anchored ethnographic research, focuses on actors, exchange systems, locations implicated embroidered fabrics, how these have been shaped through time. Drawing commodity chain analyses three textile products—one fairly localized, another cross-border, third increasingly globalized—the examines processes whereby new relationships, hierarchies, values produced, manipulated, challenged among many actors involved. These include not only women, but also lowland Vietnamese, State, tourists. The study concludes this has resulted selective diversification livelihoods, no...