'Incidental' Ethnographers: French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930

by Jean Michaud

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 2th century, and searches for the genealogies of the intellectual influences at play.

Genres: History

286 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2007

About the author

Jean Michaud is a professor in the department of Anthropology at Université Laval.