'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 / / by Jean Michaud.
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 Étrangè...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Christian mission, v. 33 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Christian mission ;
v. 33. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283060248 9786613060242 9047420217 9004139966 |
| ISSN: | 0924-9389 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Jean Michaud. |