Three months has passed, like all of you, I am leaving the field and return to "academic settings". Many events happened during the fieldwork period provide me a great deal of knowledge. Let's get drunk with your informants. Cheers for the knowledge we have obtained, for the close relationship between you and your informants. Make them feel that we not only extract information from them, but also bring something to them in return.
In my case, I invited my informants to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology where I work. They were very glad to see the ethnological objects and especially the exhibition about the Subsidy Economy period (1975-1986) in which they found their images themselves in every exhibited item.I hope, in future, in an exhibition of urban life, I can let them present their life and the process of struggling for fairness in the Renovation(Doi Moi) period (since 1986).
But first, I need to write a thesis on their perceptions of land, livelihood and security.
Ok, I am leaving for the VU in 20 minutes, I have to prepare something else!
See you soon
Shark!
