tailieunhanh - Autonomy of Vietnamese Villages through Village Regulations

The documents regulated most of the aspects of the activities in the Vietnamese village, such as the organization of social institutions, social activities The regulations of different villages both share similarities and bear uniqueness, with autonomy demonstrated diversely in aspects of life, as recorded in them. | HISTORY - ARCHAEOLOGY - ETHNOLOGY Autonomy of Vietnamese Villages through Village Regulations Vu Duy Men*, Phan Dang Thuan** Abstract: Since the beginning of time, Vietnamese farmers have been residing in villages. In the early days since the formation of Vietnamese communes, or villages, when the intervention of the feudal state was still limited, self-management and autonomy were highly positioned in the administrative units. Then, with the development of the units and the increasingly stronger intervention of the feudal state, birth was given to village customs, first unwritten, then in the written form, and, afterwards, the village regulations. The documents regulated most of the aspects of the activities in the Vietnamese village, such as the organization of social institutions, social activities The regulations of different villages both share similarities and bear uniqueness, with autonomy demonstrated diversely in aspects of life, as recorded in them. Keywords: autonomy, villages/communes, village regulations, Vietnam. 1. Introduction The village was an administrative unit of the feudal state, but it possessed relative independence from the central authority. The autonomy of Vietnamese villages originated from the remnants of primitive communalism. Each village had its own area, economic basis (land) and government system. A village was a social institution, which had a varying but secure structure and a high level of community and autonomy. Thus, Vietnamese villages were like miniature states with their own governments and laws. 2. Basis of autonomy Our villages were communities formed a long time ago along with the disintegrating process of clan communes and the replacement of rural communes. Each village had a number of families living in a 58 certain area. Apart from village relationships, blood relations were still preserved and strengthened to create a village/relative structure in which several large families held decisive power in the village .

• Chính trị học
• Autonomy of Vietnamese Villages through Village Regulations
• Autonomy of Vietnamese Villages
• The Vietnamese village
• The organization of social institutions
• The formation of Vietnamese communes