Nguyen Tung and Nelly Krowolski have long worked in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), specializing in Vietnam. They are the authors of numerous research papers published in several scientific journals in France as well as in Vietnam. The articles in this book are the results that Nguyen Tung and Nelly Krowolski have achieved through two French-Vietnamese research cooperation programs: The study of "Mong Phu Village" (Duong Lam commune, Hanoi) was conducted in the early 1990s; The study on "Villages in the Red River Delta" (1996-1999) was hosted by three French and Vietnamese scientific organizations. The issues studied in the book include: An overview of Vietnamese villages; Territory and identity; Political and social organization; Organization of space; Economic change; Extended family or nuclear family; Marriage in the village; Village cuisine: from daily meals to banquets; Village markets...