This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses these in their relation to tribal, ethnic, territorial, governmental and gendered discourses. Salemink's book is a timely contribution to anthropological knowledge, as the ethnic minorities in Vietnam have (again) been
the object of fierce academic debate. This is a historically grounded post-colonial critique relevant to theories of ethnicity and the history of anthropology, and will be of interest to graduate students of anthropology and cultural studies, as well as Vietnam studies.
By:
Oscar Salemink
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138863422
ISBN 10: 1138863424
Series: Anthropology of Asia
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 13 July 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Oscar Salemink works for the Ford Foundation in Vietnam. Heis also a lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Reviews for The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990
'Salemink provides abundant evidence to enable one to come to such a critical conclusion.' - Jan J. DeWolf, Utrecht University, the Netherlands