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This is the first broad and in depth study of sex work in Vietnam. The book asks simple questions about the sex industry: who does it; how do they practise it; what forms does it take; how much is it worth? The study presents data collected ethnographically - with some historical information from the literature - to address these questions. Most data collection done in Vietnam has been by government research agencies and NGOs. But this is the first major countrywide broad scope study giving us the kind of knowledge long available for Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, and increasingly China.
- Sales Rank: #1533846 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-06-16
- Released on: 2013-06-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Perhaps the first evidence-based study of Vietnamese sex work and workers from an anthropological perspective
By Nimanburr
Through first-hand anthropological observation, data gathering and detailed analysis the author presents a persuasive account of sex work in Vietnam. He succeeds in highlighting the fundamental weaknesses of previous studies, often advanced by those bringing narrow western-centric, feminist or doctrinal approaches to the topic. The sex work industry in Vietnam (and perhaps elsewhere) is shown to be far too complex for such simplistic approaches. The author's conclusions are likely to be controversial in some circles but I feel this work sets out to encourage discussion and debate. I recommend Sex Work in Vietnam to those who wish to learn something of anthropology and participant observation in the analysis of sex work in contemporary Vietnam, and those with an interest in the industry of sex work more broadly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Rare insight into a common trade
By Amazread
Much has been written about politics and religion in Vietnam, but not so with sex, given it is at least as big a pre-occupation as the two other themes. This anthropologic study, as wide ranging as it is funny at many places, sets out to surprise and even shock you with its findings, some of which also surprise the author himself. Ian Walters has achieved what many of us would not have the stomach (galls/balls?!) to try. For some six years up to 2000, he travelled throughout VN, ventured into those curious places of the night, talked to dozens and got to know pretty well some ten sex workers. The dim lit streets, the bia ôm joints, the bars, the karaoke parlors, the hotels... he has been there.
'Sex work' cannot be an easy research topic, as it comes under many guises - ranging from simple massage services to the sleek PG (promotion girl) industry. In this mainly self-funded and self-published scholarly investigation, received platitudes about prostitution in Vietnam (such as, 'it is driven by poverty', 'it has been eradicated by the victorious revolution', or 'the family is to be the salvation for these fallen women'..) one by one are challenged and overturned by field evidence and interpretation.
Admittedly the complex culturally conditioned nature of the moral conundrum regarding prostitution demands exhaustive analysis and wide ranging contextualisation. With a formidable command over diverse source materials, Walters uncovers the knotty problems right from the definitions of 'prostitute', 'profession', the origin of this 'social evil', to its evolutionary context. Dismantling a host of mainstream categories, he takes the fight to feminists, state-approved researchers, post-modern obscurantists and others as he breaks down the complexity of issues with good humour and disarming candour.
A summary commentary over the current state of anthropology is also part of his thorough - to the point of tedium at places - delimitation of the topic. Thus you don't just get a focussed account of prostitution in VN alone, but also a comparative look at other Asian countries, with his pedagogic backgrounding stirring up many historical and theoretical issues in its wake. Through this digressive elaboration, Walters aims to move from the polemical question : 'What is wrong with prostition?' to the more rarified of universal premises, while building a theory of evolution of prostitution that suggests it is unstoppable. Evidently, were it not fostered by socio-economic disadvantage, then in a different historical context, it would be propped up by hyperconsumerism, like in well-off Japan.
Informal sounding but serious, this is one of the most transparent of self-reflective anthropological studies that I have read. I suppose it comes naturally to the author as it must with years of teaching and practice of the discipline. Nevertheless, the text could do with some trimming of repetitious passages, even if they may be thought to serve as rhetorical emphases. Students new to the subject, if not daunted by the breadth and acuity of an embedded incidental invitation to anthropology, will be liable to succumb to the author's eloquence and get hooked on that discipline. Except for some of his generalisations, where you'd need to take them with a grain of salt or two.
Such as when the author suspects 90% of Vietnamese are dishonest, and probably is taken aback when a Viet friend suggests the ratio to be only 10%. I guess this cultural relativism issue really hints at the usual difficulty of building trust between our Western investigator and local interlocutors.
For another instance, the author observes there are three main things about Vietnamese culture: the family, venality, and rice. For the third component, I suggest it is not rice as such, rather it is the act of eating (ăn). When they can afford it, people would 'eat more meat less rice'. The Viet words for winning, taking bribes, or pilfering are the same as for eating (ăn), while compound words for living, work, play, study, sleep, speaking, sexual liaison... all contain the word ăn. (Didn't Heidegger also say: Being is appropriation?)
The author's shock at the money grubbing behaviour everywhere (a general case of eating?) confirms for him the culture of venality. What needs to be pointed out also is the concurrent loss of shame as a social constraint. Thus in his example, Ms Vui feels no shame being unable to keep her mother in good money, while the latter feels no shame raiding the servant's cupboard for spare cash. Hence the general abusive consequence of venality?
And when the family pushes its weakest members, namely young daughters, into prostitution for the sake of its future, what are we to make of the power that grandmothers or mothers exert over and against their daughters? The feminine intergeneration tension must be so blatant it should make for tantalising analysis. Together with a national enchantment over the classic story of Kiều (a beautiful woman who sold herself to prostitution to save her father from mistreatment by corrupt officials) - with the fate of Kieu having been made a symbol of Vietnam under colonisation... surely something could also be teased out of such entangled collective psyche in order to unpack the moral justification for oppression?
Overall, the author's stoic-ironic view celebrates the fact that most sex workers eventually find a way out of penury, leaving prostitution behind for a normal married life. While it may not surprise any broad mind when Ian Walters says he likes prostitution, in facing persistent historical givens such as the power of the family, the male-privileged hierarchy, or diversity of species, or wars... one may come to agree with his implacable conclusion that prostitution in Vietnam, like everywhere else, can never be eradicated.
His plea for those on the moral high ground is to leave prostitution alone, and to turn their attention instead to problems like inequality. His other proposed solutions are no less controversial. This is a passionate book, funny and intense with well argued outpourings and many hard-to-swallow revelations. It will be well worth the effort of anyone keen to gain some insight into a cluster of rarely explored facets of Vietnam, and its reality-checking significance in the big picture, while getting a deft personal take of Western anthropology thrown in for free!
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