Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders

Oscar Salemink works for the Ford Foundation in Vietnam. Heis also a lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

• Preface Acknowledgements 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 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 Maps and Charts Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

'Salemink provides abundant evidence to enable one to come to such a critical conclusion.' - Jan J. DeWolf, Utrecht University, the Netherlands