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Saigon's edge : on the margins of Ho Chi Minh city /

Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, epitomizes one of those places. In "Saigon's Edge," Erik Harms explores life...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out; Part I. Social Edginess; Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion; Part III. Realizing the Ideal; Conclusion: What Edges Do; Notes; Bibliography; Index.