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'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 / by Jean Michaud.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaud, Jean, 1957-
- Series:
- Studies in Christian mission ; v. 33.
- Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions, French--Vietnam.
- Missions, French.
- Ethnology.
- Vietnam, Northern--History.
- Vietnam, Northern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherland ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are paid special attention, notably through its major contributor, F.M. Savina. The author locates this ethnographic heritage against its historical, political and intellectual background. A comparison is conducted with French missionaries-cum-ethnographers who worked among the 'natives' in New France (Canada) in the 17th century, yielding the unexpected conclusion that practically nothing from this early period of experimentation was remembered.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Setting the scene
- pt. 2. Colonial ethnography and the French heritage
- pt. 3. Upper Tonkin
- pt. 4. Missionary authors and their texts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06024-8
- 9786613060242
- 90-474-2021-7
- 90-04-13996-6
- OCLC:
- 719383452
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004139961.i-286 DOI
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