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Shinya, U. . (2023). A STUDY OF PROPERTY INHERITANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RED RIVER DELTA. Thang Long Journal of Science: Van hien and Heritage, 1(2), 86-105. https://science.thanglong.edu.vn/index.php/volb/article/view/33
A STUDY OF PROPERTY INHERITANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RED RIVER DELTA
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In this article, family structure and land ownership in Vietnam during the first half of the nineteenth century are considered by analyzing two testaments and the land cadastre of the Nguyễn Dynasty.
From these, it seems probable that the nineteenth-century Vietnamese village had multi-household compounds that were biased toward patrilocal residence. These compounds share certain characteristics with Southeast Asian multi-household compounds and indicate that paternal kinship groups (dòng họ) were formed from cohabitation groups based on bilateral descent owing to the spread of patrilocal marriage with the popularization of Confucianism in the early modern period.
Although abundant village documents still exist in Vietnam, they have not been fully utilized as historical materials owing to a lack of cooperation with anthropologists. The analysis in this article incorporates anthropological as well as historical perspectives and offers new possibilities for the utilization of village documents.
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Early Modern Vietnam, Lineage, Multi-household compound, Confucianism, Village documents
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[24] Tsubouchi, Yoshihiro, (1996),マレー農村の 20年 [A Change of Scenery in a Malay Village], Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
[25] Ueda, Shinya, (2010a), “ベトナム黎鄭政権の 地方統治:17–18世紀鉢場社の事例” [The local administration of the Lê-Trịnh government in 17th-18th century: An example of Bat Trang village], in Yamamoto Eishi (ed.), 近世の海 域世界と地方統治 [Local administration and the Maritime World of Early Modern East Asia], Tokyo: Kyuko Shoin, pp.231–272.
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[29] Ueda, Shinya, (2020b), “Sự hình thành không gian truyền thống dân tộc Kinh ở làng Thanh Phước, tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế qua việc phân tích tài liệu làng xã (2)” [The forming of the traditional Kinh space at Thanh Phuoc village, Thua Thien Hue province: A view from analyzing village documents (2)], Nghiên cứu Lich sử 536, pp.43–56.
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[31] Yamamoto, Tatsuro, (1938), “安南黎朝の婚 姻法” [The Marriage Law of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam], Journal of Oriental Studies (Tokyo) 8, pp.1–72.
[32] Yao, Takao, (2009), 黎初ヴェトナムの政治と 社会 [Politics and Society in Early Lê Dynasty Vietnam], Hiroshima: Hiroshima University Press.
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[1] Chúc Thư Văn Khế [嘱書文契, Calligraphy form of testaments]. Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm, VHv.1253.
[2] Hoa Bản Xã Địa Bạ [花板社地簿, Land Cadastre of Hoa Bản Commune]. Trung tâm Lưu trữ Quốc gia I, Q.6997.
[3] Quốc Triều Thư Khế [國朝書契, National calligraphy form of contracts]. Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm, A.1947.
[4] Testament A (untitled). Photographed at Trương Công lineage, Phương Bản village, Phụng Châu commune, Chương Mỹ district, Hà Nội city, Vietnam.
[5] Testament B (untitled). Photographed at Trương Công lineage, Phương Bản village, Phụng Châu commune, Chương Mỹ district, Hà Nội city, Vietnam.
[6] Tổng tập Thác bản Văn khắc Hán Nôm [Corpus of Ancient Vietnamese Inscriptions], vol. 1–22.
Trịnh Khắc Mạnh, Nguyễn Văn Nguyên, Philippe Papin (eds.). Hà Nội: Viện Nghiên cứu Hán Nôm (2005–2009).
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[1] Embree, John F., (1950) “Thailand: A Loosely Structured Social System,” American Anthropologist 52(2), pp.181–93.
[2] Gourou, Pierre, (2003) Hội khoa học lịch sử Việt Nam (trans.) Người Nông dân Châu thổ Bắc kỳ, Hà Nội: Nxb Trẻ.
[3] Kobayashi, Satoru, (2011) カンボジア村落世 界の再生 [Reconfiguring Cambodian Rural Villages], Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
[4] Luong, Van Hy, (1989) “Vietnamese Kinship: Structural Principles and the Socialist Transformation in Northern Vietnam”, Journal of Asian Studies 48(4), pp.746–74.
[5] Miyazawa, Chihiro, (2000) “ベトナム北部の父 系出自・外族・同姓結合” [On Paternal Origin and Paternal and Maternal Combinations in Northern Vietnam], Yoshiwara Kazuo, Suzuki Takatoshi, and Suenari Michio (eds.),〈血 縁〉の再構築 [The Reconstruction of “Blood
Relationship”], Tokyo: Fukyo-sya, pp.213-254.
[6] Miyazawa, Chihiro, (2016) “前近代ベトナム女 性の財産権と祭祀財産相続: 忌田を中心に”
[Women’s Property Rights and the Inheritance of Property for Ancestor Worship in Pre-Modern Vietnam: Focusing on Anniversary Rice Fields], Asian and African Area Studies 15(2), pp.208– 233.
[7] Mizuno, Koichi, (1981) タイ農村の社会組織 [The Social Organization of Thai Villages], Tokyo: Sobun-sha.
[8]Ngô, Đức Thọ, (2006) Các Nhà Khoa Bảng Việt Nam (1075–1919) [The List of Vietnamese Imperial Scholar, 1075–1919], 2nd edn, Hà Nội: Nxb Văn học.
[9] Nguyễn, Đình Đầu. 1997. Nghiên cứu địa bạ triều Nguyễn: Thừa Thiên [Study on Land Cadstre of the Nguyễn Dynasty: Thừa Thiên province], Hồ Chí Minh city: Nxb Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.
[10] Nguyễn, Đồng Chỉ, (1978) “Sự tồn tại của quan hệ thân tộc” [The Existence of Kinship Relations] in Viện sử học (ed.). Nôn thôn Việt Nam trong Lịch sử [Vietnamese Rural community in History], tập 2, Hà Nội: Nxb Khoa học Xã hội.
[11] Nguyễn, Hồng Phong, (1959) Xã thôn Việt Nam [Village of Vietnam], Hà Nội: Văn Sử Địa.
[12] Phan, Huy Lê (ed.), (1995) Địa bạ Hà Đông [Land cadstre of Hà Đông province], Hà Nội: Trung tâm hợp tác nghiên cứu Việt Nam, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội.
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[14] Sakurai, Yumio, (1987, ベトナム村落の形 成 [The Formation of the Vietnamese Village], Tokyo: Sobun-sha.
[15] Suenari, Michio, (1995), “ベトナムの「家譜」” [Vietnamese ‘Family Genealogy’], The memoirs of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia 127, pp.22–23.
[16] Suenari, Michio, (1998), ベトナムの祖先祭祀: 潮曲の社会生活 [Social Life and Ancestors in a
Vietnamese Village on the Outskirts of Hanoi], Tokyo: Fukyo-sha.
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[18] Takahashi, Akio, (2015), “比較の中のミャ ンマー村落社会論: 日本、タイ、そしてミ ャンマー” [Compartive study of Myanmer village society: Japan, Thailand and Myanmer], Southeast Asia: history and culture 44, pp.5–26.
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[21] Trần, Từ, (1984), Cơ cấu tơ chức của làng Việt Cổ truyền ở Bắc bộ [The Organizational Structure of the Traditional Vietnamese Village in the North], Hà Nội: Nxb Khoa học Xã hội.
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[24] Tsubouchi, Yoshihiro, (1996),マレー農村の 20年 [A Change of Scenery in a Malay Village], Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
[25] Ueda, Shinya, (2010a), “ベトナム黎鄭政権の 地方統治:17–18世紀鉢場社の事例” [The local administration of the Lê-Trịnh government in 17th-18th century: An example of Bat Trang village], in Yamamoto Eishi (ed.), 近世の海 域世界と地方統治 [Local administration and the Maritime World of Early Modern East Asia], Tokyo: Kyuko Shoin, pp.231–272.
[26] Ueda, Shinya, (2010b), “ベトナム黎鄭政權に おける徴税と村落” [Tax collection and villages during Vietnam’s Le Dynasty under the Trinh lords], Eastern Studies 119, pp.91–107.
[27] Ueda, Shinya, (2019), 近世ベトナムの政治と社 会 [Politics and Society in Early Modern Vietnam], Osaka: Osaka University Press.
[28] Ueda, Shinya, (2020a), “Sự hình thành không gian truyền thống dân tộc Kinh ở làng Thanh Phước, tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế qua việc phân tích tài liệu làng xã (1)” [The forming of the traditional Kinh space at Thanh Phuoc village, Thua Thien Hue province: A view from analyzing village documents (1)], Nghiên cứu Lich sử 535, pp.34–49.
[29] Ueda, Shinya, (2020b), “Sự hình thành không gian truyền thống dân tộc Kinh ở làng Thanh Phước, tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế qua việc phân tích tài liệu làng xã (2)” [The forming of the traditional Kinh space at Thanh Phuoc village, Thua Thien Hue province: A view from analyzing village documents (2)], Nghiên cứu Lich sử 536, pp.43–56.
[30] Woodside, Alexander B., (1988), Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Compartive Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, MA: Harvard University Press.
[31] Yamamoto, Tatsuro, (1938), “安南黎朝の婚 姻法” [The Marriage Law of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam], Journal of Oriental Studies (Tokyo) 8, pp.1–72.
[32] Yao, Takao, (2009), 黎初ヴェトナムの政治と 社会 [Politics and Society in Early Lê Dynasty Vietnam], Hiroshima: Hiroshima University Press.
[33] Yu, Insun, (1990), Law and Society in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vietnam, Seoul: Korea University. [34] Yu, Insun, (1999), “Bilateral Social Pattern and the Status of Women in Traditional Vietnam”, Southeast Asia Research 7(6), pp.215–31.