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

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Routledge, 18 okt 2019 - 416 pagina's
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.
 

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List of maps and charts
Ethnography anthropology and colonial discourse
The construction of an evolutionist discourse
Colonial administration and cultural relativism
Multiple interpretations of a millenarian movement
American counterinsurgency and Montagnard autonomy
The role of anthropology
The King of Fire and Vietnamese ethnic policies
French American and Vietnamese ethnographies in comparative perspective
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Over de auteur (2019)

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

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