The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990

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Oscar Salemink

The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders

A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990

Oscar Salemink

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English

Routledge
12 December 2002

Asian history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Indigenous peoples; Physical anthropology & ethnography

Series: Anthropology of Asia

This study looks at the multiple relations between the ethnographic representations of the Montagnard ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, the changing historical context in and for which the ethnographies were produced and consumed. There are two major arguments developed

here. It is argued that economic, political and military interests within a specific historical context condition ethnographic practice. This is not, however, a one-way process. The author also argues that the ensuing ethnographic discourses in turn influence the historical context by suggesting and facilitating ethnic policies, and by contributing to the formation or change of ethnic identities through processes of

classification. Ethnographic knowledge is not simply a more

or less accurate reflection of indigenous society. Ethnography is a (textual) representation of a particular society constructed by outsiders, conditioned by their interaction with informants and by differing interests which influence ethnographic practice. Changing circumstances mean there is a constant reconstruction of ethnographic knowledge. 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: 9780700715701
ISBN 10: 0700715703
Series: Anthropology of Asia
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 12 December 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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