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The ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders a historical contextualization, 1850-1990 Oscar Salemink.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of Asia seriesPublication details: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press c2003.Description: xxii, 383 pages illustrations, maps 25 cmISBN:
  • 0824825799
  • 9780824825799
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89593 SAL
Contents:
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 4. The return of the Python God : territirialization, ethnicizatio 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-367) and index.

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 4. The return of the Python God : territirialization, ethnicizatio 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.

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