Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders

This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization colonization war and socialist transformation and analyses these in their relation to tribal ethnic territorial governmental and gendered discourses. Salemink's book is a timely contribution to anthropological knowledge as the ethnic minorities in Vietnam have (again) been the object of fierce academic debate. This is a historically grounded post-colonial critique relevant to theories of ethnicity and the history of anthropology and will be of interest to graduate students of anthropology and cultural studies as well as Vietnam studies.