Oscar Salemink

The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders

A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Anthropology of Asia
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781138863422
• ISBN-10: 1138863424
• Artikelnr.: 42799381

Autorenporträt

Oscar Salemink works for the Ford Foundation in Vietnam. Heis also a lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Ethnography, Anthropology and
Colonial Discourse 2. Missionaries, Explorers and Savages: The Construction
of an Evolutionist Discourse 3. Leopold Sabatier: Colonial Administration
and Cultural Relativism 5. The Return of the Python God: Multiple
Interpretations of a Millenarian Movement 6. War and Ethnography:
Territorialization, Ethnicization and Cultural Relativism 7. Romancing the
Montagnards: The Role of Anthropology 8. The Dying God Revisited: The King
of Fire and Vietnamese Ethnic Policies 9. Conclusion: French, American and
Vietnamese Ethnographies in Comparative Perspective Maps and Charts
Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index