Book
The Kingdom of Annam and the Annamese: journal of the voyage of J. L. Dutreuil de Rhins
E. Plon et Cie • Paris • Published In 1879 • Pages:
By: Rhins, J.-L. Dutreuil de (Jules Léon), Messner, Charles A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dutreuil de Rhins was a French naval officer who was given command of one of five warships presented to the King of Annam in 1876. His impressions of the land and the people, while strongly biased and subjective, are of some importance because of the date (1876) and because of his encounters with Vietnamese who had little contact with the French up to that point. His observations cover aspects of the society that are usually found in theoretical form, such as the power of the Emperor and the mandarins. He also presented information on the military, the state of trade (with statistics), descriptions of the topography based on explorations, and charts of meteorological data, etc. While some of the material in this source has not been classified because of its lack of specific ethnographic material on Vietnamese culture, it is of sufficient merit to warrant reading the entire source for such Vietnamese reactions to French culture as are described here. Dutreuil de Rhins has transliterated Vietnamese names phonetically into French. Where exact identification has been possible, the Vietnamese (QUOC NGU) has also been given.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Ethnic stratification
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Administrative agencies
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Roseanne Mandler ; 1952: John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1876-1877
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1876-1877
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central (TRUNG BO) Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] J. L. Dutreuil de Rhins
- Translation of: [Le royaume d'Annam et les Annamites : journal de voyage de J. L. Dutreuil de Rhins]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by C. A. Messner
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese