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Thanh Hoá: geographical study of an Annamese province
Les éditions G. Van Oest • Paris • Published In 1929 • Pages:
By: Robequain, Charles, Botsford, Keith, Messner, Charles A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Robequain, a geographer, produced this monograph on Vietnam in 1929. About a third of Volume 1 is devoted to the geography, geology, and climate of the area, and a short section deals with the flora. The rest of the volume deals with five ethnic groups within the province, and of their relations with each other and with the Annamese (Vietnamese). Volume 2 deals with the Annamese proper. Robequain gives descriptions of their agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing, and various industries which exist in the area. He then goes into the community and its structure, with particular attention to dwellings and settlement patterns. The second volume concludes with long sections on domestic and foreign trade and the activities of the French government. Of the two volumes, the second is perhaps the more useful. The author has given therein an excellent study of Vietnamese economic life. The tribal material in the first volume will be less useful from the point of view of comparative study. Its main utility is that, taken as a block, it shows the regional variations which exist among tribal groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- Composition of population
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Mercantile business
- Routes
- Highways and bridges
- Railways
- Ethnic stratification
- Tribe and nation
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Territorial hierarchy
- Research and development
- 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.
- Geographer
- 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
- James Leary ; 1955 ; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1071-1929
- 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] Charles Robequain
- Translation of: [Le Thanh Hoá: étude géographique d'une province a annamite]
- Includes bibliography in Vol. 2
- Translated from the French for the HRAF files by Keith Botsford and C. A. Messner ca. 1958.
- A slight mention is made of the Kha (AM07), and about a dozen pages each of culture summary are devoted to the Meo (Miao AE05) and the Man (Yao AE06). The remainder of the first volume deals with the Thai (Shan-Thai AL03) and Muong (AM07), generally lumped together. General coverage is given to their history, agriculture, political organization, and industry, with large amounts of space devoted to the variations that occur from one locality to another.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese