The barefoot anthropologist : the highlands of Champa and Vietnam in the words of Jacques Dournes / Andrew Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dournes, Jacques, interviewee.

Contributor:

Hardy, Andrew (Andrew David), 1966- interviewer.

École française d'Extrême-Orient, publisher.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dournes, Jacques--Interviews.

Dournes, Jacques.

Dournes, Jacques. Pötao.

Anthropologists--Vietnam--Interviews.

Anthropologists.

Jarai (Southeast Asian people).

Central Highlands (Vietnam).

Vietnam.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xi, 148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2015.

Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 2015.

Language Note:

In English, with some text in French.

Summary:

French anthropologist Jacques Dournes lived in Vietnam for 25 years, from 1946 to 1970, studying the culture of the Jarai and other highland ethnic groups. He became a renowned ethnographer and the Jarai people became his lifelong passion. In part one of this study, the author explores Dournes's monograph Pötao : une théorie du pouvoir chez les Indochinois Jörai. In part two, Dournes speaks animatedly with the author about the Jarai, his feelings about culture and economics, his understanding of Vietnam's history, and his personal experience of living in the Central Highlands. The French transcript of the interview is presented in the appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

6162151042

9786162151040

OCLC:

907657500

Publisher Number:

99964655875