Oscar Salemink
Biographic Data
| ID | 401027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Salemink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar |
| FAMILY NAME | Salemink |
| SIGNATURE | SALEMINK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3397-5061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Unite…
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
When, how, and why did the Vietnam War begin? Although its end is dated April 30, 1975, there is no agreement as to when it began. The Vietnam War was an enormously complex conflict and while any comprehensive reckoning must include the role of the US, it was not an 'American War'. This volume presents the scholarship that has flourished since the 1990s to situate the war and its origins within longer chronologies and larger interpretative perspe…
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum: Drowned Refugees, Commemorative Artworks and Maritime Heritage of the Future
Long considered a cultural contact zone, the Mediterranean has become a weaponised border zone keeping refugees from Africa and the Middle East away from ‘Fortress Europe’. The Mediterranean has become excessively dangerous to cross, leading many commentators to call this maritime space a ‘massive graveyard’. The widespread indifference and enmity towards migrants in Europe is, amongst other things, countered by documentary and commemorative proj…
A manifesto against property: Anthropological anger in an era of greed and destruction
The term polycrisis, coined by Edgar Morin at the turn of the millennium (Morin and Kern 1999), has been picked up by a handful of commentators recently, and it was also recently the topic of a special issue of Anthropology Today (Henig and Knight 2023, see also Kalb 2023). Ranging from biodiversity loss and climate change to mounting inequalities both globally and domestically, a widespread sense of powerlessness spreads even in countries consid…
Introduction: Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices
Urban visions of modernity and nostalgia constitute two competing visions of the good life in Asia, which are both materialised in urban neighbourhoods. When and where old historic neighbourhoods are not razed to be replaced by highrises, modern residential blocks and shopping malls but instead retained, it is often under the banner of heritage. This theme section considers heritagization of Asian cities against the backdrop of modernisation and …
Utopian Movements, Enactments and Subjectivities among Youth in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives
Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten
More Thoughts on Scholarly Misconduct, and What We Can Learn from It: A Critical Response to Peter Jan Margry’s Article about the Bax Affair
The Ethnography of Vietnam’s Central Highlanders: A historical contextualization, 1850–1990
This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses these in their relation to tribal, ethnic, territorial, governmental and gendered discourses. Salemink's book is a timely contribution to anthropological knowledge, as the ethnic minorities in Vietnam have (again) been the object of fierce ac…
Introduction: Youth, subjectivity and Utopia – ethnographic perspectives from the Global South
As a fluid age cohort and a social category between childhood and adulthood – and hence with tenuous links to the status quo – youth are variously described as ‘at risk’, as victims of precarious and unpredictable circumstances, or as agents of social change who embody the future. From this future-oriented generational perspective, youth are often mobilised to individually and collectively imagine, enact and embody Utopian futures as alternatives…
Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection
In 2011, UNESCO inscribed the fourteenth-century Citadel of the H Dynasty in Vietnam's Thanh Ha Province on the World Heritage List, thereby both recognising and rewarding Vietnam's efforts in conserving the archaeological site, as well as obliging it to meet UNESCO's official conservation standards. In an article titled 'H Citadel the Site of a Modern Conflict' in the English-language newspaper Vit Nam News of 8 June 2014, Deputy Director of the…
After dispossession
Since the 1980s globalization has taken on increasingly neoliberalizing forms in the form of commoditization of objects, resources, or even human bodies, their reduction to financial values, and their enclosure or other forms of dispossession. "After dispossession" provides ethnographic accounts of the diverse ways to deal with dispossessions by attempts at repossessing values in connection to what has been lost in neoliberal assemblages of peopl…
Revolutionary and Christian Ecumenes and Desire for Modernity in the Vietnamese Highlands
Inspired by a critical reading of James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) which argued that Highlanders in Southeast Asia have intentionally evaded â state capture and state formationsâ , I offer a contrasting vision of Highlander motivations and desires from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I argue that, in pre-colonial times, lowland states and Highland regions have been mutually constitutive through trade, tribute and feasts. Econo…
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
1. Human Security and Social Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen Part I The Political Economy of Human Security 2. Taking Risks for Security's Sake: Bolivians Resisting their State and its Economic Policies Ton Salman 3. State Formation, Imposition of a Land Market and Silent Resistance among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas Bernard Venema (with Ali Mguild) 4. Flexible Migrants: Brazilian Gold Miners and their Quest for Human Security in Surinam M…
Between Engagement and Abuse: Reflections on the “Field” of Anthropology and the Power of Ethnography
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
Mission and Catechesis. Alexandre de Rhodes & Inculturation in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts
In Casting Faiths, Thomas DuBois seeks to understand the transformation of "the definition, practice and social significance of religion" in Asia at three levels—society, theology, and technology—under the impact of the East–West encounter—or what he calls imperial hegemony in his programmatic article "Hegemony, Imperialism and the construction of religion in East and Southeast Asia." The chapters of this volume shed light on processes of religio…
State Classification and Its Discontents: The Struggle Over Bawean Ethnic Identity in Vietnam
This paper presents a group of Muslim descendants of Bawean people living in Hồ Chí Minh City who formalized their citizenship status and as a consequence their official ethnic identity. Much current scholarly literature presents state classification as a state's hegemonic instrument, as an instrument of state power alone. This case study balances the widespread view of the contemporary Vietnamese state as classifying the "motley crowds" within i…
Embodying the Nation: Mediumship, Ritual, and the National Imagination
Among lowlander Vietnamese, spirit possession is a growing phenomenon that reserves a prominent ritual place for deities and practices that refer to ethnic groups imagined to have preceded the Việt in their habitats, or to be living in remote places. In this way, ethnic boundaries are simultaneously constructed and transgressed in ways that both spatialize and temporalize cultural difference in embodied ritual practice and the national imaginatio…
Living with the Dead: The politics of ritual and remembrance in contemporary Vietnam
Since the inauguration in 1986 of the reforms known as Đ ổ i M ớ i , ritual and religious practices have proliferated in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This renewed interest in religious and ritual practice has been the object of intensive scholarly interest both in Vietnam and outside, and has been interpreted in terms of revival ( ph ụ c h ồ i) , invention and politics of tradition. This collection of articles deals with this phenomenon of …
The emperor's new clothes: Re-fashioning ritual in the Huế Festival
This essay focuses on the political dimensions of the Festival Huế, which is claimed to be significant as a celebration of the nation. Although socialist state rituals have lost their relevance in the Đổi Mới era, the revival and re-invention of ritualised tradition create fertile ground for new ritualised events that legitimate and lend significance to the current regime. I argue that despite the unfamiliarity of many spectators with the symboli…
Changing rights and wrongs
In the context of the conflict-ridden relationship with the Vietnamese state and the growing transnational interference by their vociferous diaspora, this paper analyzes particular shifts in the framing of their rights. A notion of collective group rights that are by definition particularistic and exclusive has given way to individual rights (especially religious freedom) that are universal and inclusive. Simultaneously, a localized and communal …
Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
It is often forgotten that anthropology--the scientific study of cultural difference--arose from situations that required a practical management of cultural differences. Out of the practical contexts of colonial contact--administration, mission, nationalism, policing, settler cultivation, tourism, warfare--emerged methods, and images of otherness, that inform anthropological notions of cultural difference to this day.The essays in this volume sha…
Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government
Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
It is often forgotten that anthropology--the scientific study of cultural difference--arose from situations that required a practical management of cultural differences. Out of the practical contexts of colonial contact--administration, mission, nationalism, policing, settler cultivation, tourism, warfare--emerged methods, and images of otherness, that inform anthropological notions of cultural difference to this day.The essays in this volume sha…
Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice1
1994). Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice. History and Anthropology: Vol. 8, No. 1-4, pp. 1-34
Living with the Dead: The politics of ritual and remembrance in contemporary Vietnam
Since the inauguration in 1986 of the reforms known as Đ ổ i M ớ i , ritual and religious practices have proliferated in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This renewed interest in religious and ritual practice has been the object of intensive scholarly interest both in Vietnam and outside, and has been interpreted in terms of revival ( ph ụ c h ồ i) , invention and politics of tradition. This collection of articles deals with this phenomenon of …
The emperor's new clothes: Re-fashioning ritual in the Huế Festival
This essay focuses on the political dimensions of the Festival Huế, which is claimed to be significant as a celebration of the nation. Although socialist state rituals have lost their relevance in the Đổi Mới era, the revival and re-invention of ritualised tradition create fertile ground for new ritualised events that legitimate and lend significance to the current regime. I argue that despite the unfamiliarity of many spectators with the symboli…
Embodying the Nation: Mediumship, Ritual, and the National Imagination
Among lowlander Vietnamese, spirit possession is a growing phenomenon that reserves a prominent ritual place for deities and practices that refer to ethnic groups imagined to have preceded the Việt in their habitats, or to be living in remote places. In this way, ethnic boundaries are simultaneously constructed and transgressed in ways that both spatialize and temporalize cultural difference in embodied ritual practice and the national imaginatio…
Revolutionary and Christian Ecumenes and Desire for Modernity in the Vietnamese Highlands
Inspired by a critical reading of James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) which argued that Highlanders in Southeast Asia have intentionally evaded â state capture and state formationsâ , I offer a contrasting vision of Highlander motivations and desires from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I argue that, in pre-colonial times, lowland states and Highland regions have been mutually constitutive through trade, tribute and feasts. Econo…
The return of the Python god: Multiple interpretations of a millenarian movement in colonial vietnam1
Introduction: Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices
Urban visions of modernity and nostalgia constitute two competing visions of the good life in Asia, which are both materialised in urban neighbourhoods. When and where old historic neighbourhoods are not razed to be replaced by highrises, modern residential blocks and shopping malls but instead retained, it is often under the banner of heritage. This theme section considers heritagization of Asian cities against the backdrop of modernisation and …
After dispossession
Since the 1980s globalization has taken on increasingly neoliberalizing forms in the form of commoditization of objects, resources, or even human bodies, their reduction to financial values, and their enclosure or other forms of dispossession. "After dispossession" provides ethnographic accounts of the diverse ways to deal with dispossessions by attempts at repossessing values in connection to what has been lost in neoliberal assemblages of peopl…
State Classification and Its Discontents: The Struggle Over Bawean Ethnic Identity in Vietnam
This paper presents a group of Muslim descendants of Bawean people living in Hồ Chí Minh City who formalized their citizenship status and as a consequence their official ethnic identity. Much current scholarly literature presents state classification as a state's hegemonic instrument, as an instrument of state power alone. This case study balances the widespread view of the contemporary Vietnamese state as classifying the "motley crowds" within i…
A manifesto against property: Anthropological anger in an era of greed and destruction
The term polycrisis, coined by Edgar Morin at the turn of the millennium (Morin and Kern 1999), has been picked up by a handful of commentators recently, and it was also recently the topic of a special issue of Anthropology Today (Henig and Knight 2023, see also Kalb 2023). Ranging from biodiversity loss and climate change to mounting inequalities both globally and domestically, a widespread sense of powerlessness spreads even in countries consid…
Mois and Maquis: The Invention and Appropriation Of Vietnam’s Montagnards from Sabatier to the CIA
The return of the Python god: Multiple interpretations of a millenarian movement in colonial vietnam1
Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice1
1994). Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice. History and Anthropology: Vol. 8, No. 1-4, pp. 1-34
Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government
Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
It is often forgotten that anthropology--the scientific study of cultural difference--arose from situations that required a practical management of cultural differences. Out of the practical contexts of colonial contact--administration, mission, nationalism, policing, settler cultivation, tourism, warfare--emerged methods, and images of otherness, that inform anthropological notions of cultural difference to this day.The essays in this volume sha…
Changing rights and wrongs
In the context of the conflict-ridden relationship with the Vietnamese state and the growing transnational interference by their vociferous diaspora, this paper analyzes particular shifts in the framing of their rights. A notion of collective group rights that are by definition particularistic and exclusive has given way to individual rights (especially religious freedom) that are universal and inclusive. Simultaneously, a localized and communal …
Living with the Dead: The politics of ritual and remembrance in contemporary Vietnam
Since the inauguration in 1986 of the reforms known as Đ ổ i M ớ i , ritual and religious practices have proliferated in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This renewed interest in religious and ritual practice has been the object of intensive scholarly interest both in Vietnam and outside, and has been interpreted in terms of revival ( ph ụ c h ồ i) , invention and politics of tradition. This collection of articles deals with this phenomenon of …
The emperor's new clothes: Re-fashioning ritual in the Huế Festival
This essay focuses on the political dimensions of the Festival Huế, which is claimed to be significant as a celebration of the nation. Although socialist state rituals have lost their relevance in the Đổi Mới era, the revival and re-invention of ritualised tradition create fertile ground for new ritualised events that legitimate and lend significance to the current regime. I argue that despite the unfamiliarity of many spectators with the symboli…
Embodying the Nation: Mediumship, Ritual, and the National Imagination
Among lowlander Vietnamese, spirit possession is a growing phenomenon that reserves a prominent ritual place for deities and practices that refer to ethnic groups imagined to have preceded the Việt in their habitats, or to be living in remote places. In this way, ethnic boundaries are simultaneously constructed and transgressed in ways that both spatialize and temporalize cultural difference in embodied ritual practice and the national imaginatio…
Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts
In Casting Faiths, Thomas DuBois seeks to understand the transformation of "the definition, practice and social significance of religion" in Asia at three levels—society, theology, and technology—under the impact of the East–West encounter—or what he calls imperial hegemony in his programmatic article "Hegemony, Imperialism and the construction of religion in East and Southeast Asia." The chapters of this volume shed light on processes of religio…
State Classification and Its Discontents: The Struggle Over Bawean Ethnic Identity in Vietnam
This paper presents a group of Muslim descendants of Bawean people living in Hồ Chí Minh City who formalized their citizenship status and as a consequence their official ethnic identity. Much current scholarly literature presents state classification as a state's hegemonic instrument, as an instrument of state power alone. This case study balances the widespread view of the contemporary Vietnamese state as classifying the "motley crowds" within i…
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
Mission and Catechesis. Alexandre de Rhodes & Inculturation in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Between Engagement and Abuse: Reflections on the “Field” of Anthropology and the Power of Ethnography
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
1. Human Security and Social Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen Part I The Political Economy of Human Security 2. Taking Risks for Security's Sake: Bolivians Resisting their State and its Economic Policies Ton Salman 3. State Formation, Imposition of a Land Market and Silent Resistance among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas Bernard Venema (with Ali Mguild) 4. Flexible Migrants: Brazilian Gold Miners and their Quest for Human Security in Surinam M…
Revolutionary and Christian Ecumenes and Desire for Modernity in the Vietnamese Highlands
Inspired by a critical reading of James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) which argued that Highlanders in Southeast Asia have intentionally evaded â state capture and state formationsâ , I offer a contrasting vision of Highlander motivations and desires from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I argue that, in pre-colonial times, lowland states and Highland regions have been mutually constitutive through trade, tribute and feasts. Econo…
Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection
In 2011, UNESCO inscribed the fourteenth-century Citadel of the H Dynasty in Vietnam's Thanh Ha Province on the World Heritage List, thereby both recognising and rewarding Vietnam's efforts in conserving the archaeological site, as well as obliging it to meet UNESCO's official conservation standards. In an article titled 'H Citadel the Site of a Modern Conflict' in the English-language newspaper Vit Nam News of 8 June 2014, Deputy Director of the…
After dispossession
Since the 1980s globalization has taken on increasingly neoliberalizing forms in the form of commoditization of objects, resources, or even human bodies, their reduction to financial values, and their enclosure or other forms of dispossession. "After dispossession" provides ethnographic accounts of the diverse ways to deal with dispossessions by attempts at repossessing values in connection to what has been lost in neoliberal assemblages of peopl…
Introduction: Youth, subjectivity and Utopia – ethnographic perspectives from the Global South
As a fluid age cohort and a social category between childhood and adulthood – and hence with tenuous links to the status quo – youth are variously described as ‘at risk’, as victims of precarious and unpredictable circumstances, or as agents of social change who embody the future. From this future-oriented generational perspective, youth are often mobilised to individually and collectively imagine, enact and embody Utopian futures as alternatives…
The Ethnography of Vietnam’s Central Highlanders: A historical contextualization, 1850–1990
This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses these in their relation to tribal, ethnic, territorial, governmental and gendered discourses. Salemink's book is a timely contribution to anthropological knowledge, as the ethnic minorities in Vietnam have (again) been the object of fierce ac…
Utopian Movements, Enactments and Subjectivities among Youth in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives
Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten
More Thoughts on Scholarly Misconduct, and What We Can Learn from It: A Critical Response to Peter Jan Margry’s Article about the Bax Affair
Introduction: Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices
Urban visions of modernity and nostalgia constitute two competing visions of the good life in Asia, which are both materialised in urban neighbourhoods. When and where old historic neighbourhoods are not razed to be replaced by highrises, modern residential blocks and shopping malls but instead retained, it is often under the banner of heritage. This theme section considers heritagization of Asian cities against the backdrop of modernisation and …
A manifesto against property: Anthropological anger in an era of greed and destruction
The term polycrisis, coined by Edgar Morin at the turn of the millennium (Morin and Kern 1999), has been picked up by a handful of commentators recently, and it was also recently the topic of a special issue of Anthropology Today (Henig and Knight 2023, see also Kalb 2023). Ranging from biodiversity loss and climate change to mounting inequalities both globally and domestically, a widespread sense of powerlessness spreads even in countries consid…
Political science (17 works) · History (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works)