The ethnography of Vietnam's central highlanders : a historical contextualization 1850-1990.
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 disco...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Florence :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | Anthropology of Asia Ser.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Ethnography, anthropology and colonial discourse
- Missionaries, explorers, and savages: The construction of an evolutionist discourse
- Leopold Sabatier: Colonial administration and cultural relativism
- The return of the Python god: multiple interpretations of a millenarian movement
- War and ethnography: Territorialization, ethnicization and cultural relativism
- Romancing the Montagnards: American counterinsurgency and Montagnard autonomy
- Moving the Montagnards: The role of anthropology
- The dying god revisited: the king of fire and Vietnamese ethnic policies
- French, American and Vietnamese ethnographies in comparative perspective.