'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 /
Michaud, Jean, 1957-
'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 / by Jean Michaud. - Leiden, Netherland ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2007. - xv, 279 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Studies in Christian mission, 33 0924-9389 ; . - Studies in Christian mission ; 33. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
"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 Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's southern 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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9789004139961 9004139966
2007296946
B0707496 bccb 013763531 Uk
Missions, French--Vietnam.
Ethnology.
Vietnam, Northern--History.
BV2210 / .M53 2007
266/.2597
'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 / by Jean Michaud. - Leiden, Netherland ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2007. - xv, 279 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Studies in Christian mission, 33 0924-9389 ; . - Studies in Christian mission ; 33. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
"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 Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's southern 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
9789004139961 9004139966
2007296946
B0707496 bccb 013763531 Uk
Missions, French--Vietnam.
Ethnology.
Vietnam, Northern--History.
BV2210 / .M53 2007
266/.2597