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Village on the Edge of TIme
For a thousand years the lives of the Dong people have resounded with song. Their distinctive culture endures—but for how long?
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za, or elder woman, as she chats with neighbors on the way to weed her rice field outside the village. Women must often hike several miles up steep paths to begin their daily farming chores.]]>
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