The tombs of wind (Những ngôi mộ giό)
The enigmas of empty graves, encrypted archives and porous bones
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4531411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tâm T T Ngô (0000-0002-3122-9567, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Remains and Violence An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2054-2240 • E-ISSN: 2054-2240 |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7227/hrv.10.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4396792436 |
| Language | VI |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article details the remarkable involvement of the Vietnamese population in finding and naming half a million Vietnamese missing-in-action (MIAs). The secrecy that characterised Vietnam's military operations during wartime, and the overlapping claims and therefore control of the MIAs by the army and civil administrations in the aftermath of the wars, are the reasons behind unsolvable quagmires in Vietnam's current war-accounting effort. The myriad of state actors involved who often work at cross purposes raises the public's awareness of the incompetence of the state and calls for the participation of non-state actors. The latest potential avenue to solve the MIA problem, DNA forensics, is facing all kinds of challenges, such as the quality of the bone samples and the scale of the effort. War accounting has therefore become an open arena of public engagement and popular dissent, while significantly transforming the cult of the dead in Vietnam
Archaeology · Art · Geography · Geotechnical engineering · Cambodian History and Society · Chemistry · Environmental Science · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Geology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |