Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConnected & disconnected in Viet Nam : remaking social relations in a post-socialist nation
EditorsPhilip Taylor
Number of pages35
Place of PublicationCanberra
PublisherAustralian National University Press
Publication date2016
Pages311-345
Chapter9
ISBN (Print)9781925022926
ISBN (Electronic)9781760460006
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Bibliographical note

Oscar Salemink is Professor in the Anthropology of Asia at the University of Copenhagen. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam, based on research on Vietnam’s Central Highlands. From 1996 to 2001, he was responsible for grant portfolios in higher education, arts and culture, and sustainable development in Thailand and Vietnam on behalf of the Ford Foundation. From 2001 to 2011, he worked at VU University in Amsterdam, from 2005 as Professor of Social Anthropology. His current research concerns religious, ritual, and heritage practices in everyday life in Vietnam and the East and Southeast Asian region. His recent book-length publications include Colonial Subjects (University of Michigan Press, 1999); Vietnam’s Cultural Diversity (UNESCO Publishing, 2001); The Ethnography of Vietnam’s Central Highlanders (University of Hawaii Press, 2003); The Development of Religion, the Religion of Development (Eburon, 2004); A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security (with Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Ellen Bal, Pluto Press, 2010); the Routledge Handbook on Religions in Asia (co-edited with Bryan S. Turner, Routledge, 2014); and thematic issues of History and Anthropology (1994), Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology (2006), and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2007).

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