Author: SALEMINK, Oscar.
Title: The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization, 1850-1900.
Description: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very good condition. No dj. Examines "...the multiple relations between the ethnogrpahic representation of the indigenous ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam (sometimes called Montagnards), and the changing historical context in which, and for which, the ethnographies were produced and consumed for more than a century...analyzes how changing ethnographic representations had a profound but varied impact on the people who formed the objects of such discourse," in terms of tribalization, territorialization, ethnicization, governmentalization, marginalization and gender transformation. 383pp. ISBN 0824825799.

Keywords: social sociology history politics politcal anthropology anthropological ethnography vietnam vietnamese montagnards central highland highlands south east asia asian