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

by Oscar Salemink

This book looks at the multiple relations between the ethnographic representations of the Montagnard ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and the changing historical context in and for which the ethnographies were produced and in which they were consumed. There are two major arguments developed by the author. It is maintained that economic, political, and military interests within a specific historical context condition ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825799
• ISBN13: 9780824825799
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"