메콩델타-역동적인 문화와 역사의 세계

The present study explores the different socio-cultural systems between the Red River Delta and Mekong River Delta. Despite their sharing of a common cultural tradition, they have structurally distinct social systems, with the Northerners constituting a closed corporate peasantry and the Southerners being an open peasantry. This study especially investigates that the differentiation of the peasant social system of the Mekong Delta from that of parental system of the Red River Delta came about largely as a result of adaptation to new environmental pressures in the new habitat. Furtheremore, the study examines that the Mekong Delta as an open peasant society has always been exposed to outside world. The southern Vietnamese community has developed and grown within a non-local space of networks of relations extending between the south Vietnamese people on and off the southern Vietnamese territory including the Mekong Delta area. An important key to the success of this community lies in the fact that despite its deterritorialized character it still has a territorial locus where it touches down. It thus attains its vitality and meaning by being grounded in places on the southern part of Vietnam, which are associated with the family of the migrants. These places have therefore become important cultural sites in the global South vietnamese community.