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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This paper presents an overview of the main features and nature of T?t, the Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, as it is currently experienced in H? Chà Minh City. It outlines a variety of social practices associated with T?t and suggests that it is through these that one can identify a 'festive landscape' in the city, within which a number of diverse places are made into and experienced as 'meaningful space' in the context of the T?t festival. The emphasis is on how the spatial practices associated with the festival constitute the lived experience of T?t by urban residents and on how this both transforms and connects various sites. Of particular importance here is the family home and how it is linked to the wider holistic experience of T?t, bringing together in a single place sacred and secular, public and private, and the production and consumption of place, in a social construction that is characterised as a heterotopia.
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