Modernity and the dynamics of tradition in Vietnam - Anthropological approaches'' is a set of 5 volumes. This book is from presentations in the 2007 International Anthropological Conference on Vietnam. The seminar was co-organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University and the University of Toronto (Canada). The book is a collection of 60 anthropological studies by domestic and foreign authors on diverse topics. Studies have helped to shed light on contemporary social, economic, environmental and governance dynamics in Vietnam. In addition to topics such as rituals, religion, and ethnic relations, which are traditional subjects of Vietnamese ethnography, studies address many issues of urban life such as labor and domestic help, female worker or issues related to globalization such as factors affecting the consumption of motorbikes, Vietnamese workers abroad and returning home, transnational marriage, infertility, HIV / AIDS, etc.