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The country of Annam: a study of the political and social organisation of the Annamese
Ernest Leroux, éditeur • Paris • Published In 1878 • Pages:
By: Luro, Eliacin, Lopez, Mrs. Claude A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed study of the major institutions of Vietnamese life as encountered by the French in the 19th century. Luro was associated with an early survey of Indochina by the French and was subsequently Inspector of Native Affairs in the French possession of Cochinchina. The introduction is a useful study of the social and political events in Vietnam leading to the French seizure of Cochinchina. An historical and geographical chapter is followed by topical chapters on Vietnamese national institutions. Some of the best of these are those on the educational system and its relationship through government examinations to the recruitment of the administrative classes and the class system of the country, the structure of the legal and court system, the organisation of the family with respect to the ancestor cult, the socio-political organisation of the village in relation to the administration and territorial hierarchy of the nation. Interesting comparisons with ideal patterns copied from Chinese national institutions are made. The system of designating the major divisions of Indochina used here are no longer employed and are somewhat unclear.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Modification of behavior
- Writing
- Inheritance
- Gift giving
- Production and supply
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Household
- Family relationships
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Local officials
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Public works
- Property offenses
- Litigation
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Educational theory and methods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1864-1876
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1879 B.C. - 1876 A.D.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] éliacin Luro
- Translation of: [Le pays d'Annam : étude sur l'organisation politique et sociale des Annamites]
- Translated from the French for the HRAF files by Mrs. Claude A. Lopez ca. 1955
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese