| 'Incidental' Ethnographers: French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930 Contributor(s): Michaud, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004139966 ISBN-13: 9789004139961 Publisher: Brill
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2007 Annotation: This book introduces, from an anthropological standpoint, French Catholic missionary colonial ethnographic writing from the highlands of north Vietnam and Yunnan at the turn of the 20th century, and searches for the genealogies of the intellectual influences at play. Click for more in this series: Studies in Christian Mission |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Religion | Christian Ministry - Evangelism |
| Dewey: 266.259 |
| Series: Studies in Christian Mission |
| Physical Information: 286 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Soci t des Missions trang res 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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