TY - JOUR
T1 - New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
T2 - Social Communication and Colonial Archeology in Viêt Nam
AU - Cherry, Haydon Leslie
N1 - http://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-Dec04/6_2_7.pdf
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This essay examines the development of archaeology and social communication in colonial Viêt Nam. It focuses on the constitution of knowledge about the Vietnamese Bronze Age during the colonial period, in the context of changes in technologies of communication and the emergence of a public sphere in the colony. It attempts to do several things. First, it demonstrates that archaeological scholarship in Viêt Nam during the colonial period was not the sole preserve of European scholars but that indigenous scholars also played an important role in shaping this field of knowledge. Second, it argues that archaeological scholarship in both the imperial metropole and in the colony was worked out in a global context, a consequence of both the circulation of scholarly texts and the intellectual sociability of colonial scholars. Contributors from diverse backgrounds, both within and outside of the French empire, were involved in the constitution of knowledge about the Vietnamese past. Third, and finally, this paper demonstrates that archaeological knowledge did not remain the sole preserve of French scholars or indigenous elites, but was circulated and contested in an emergent colonial public sphere.
AB - This essay examines the development of archaeology and social communication in colonial Viêt Nam. It focuses on the constitution of knowledge about the Vietnamese Bronze Age during the colonial period, in the context of changes in technologies of communication and the emergence of a public sphere in the colony. It attempts to do several things. First, it demonstrates that archaeological scholarship in Viêt Nam during the colonial period was not the sole preserve of European scholars but that indigenous scholars also played an important role in shaping this field of knowledge. Second, it argues that archaeological scholarship in both the imperial metropole and in the colony was worked out in a global context, a consequence of both the circulation of scholarly texts and the intellectual sociability of colonial scholars. Contributors from diverse backgrounds, both within and outside of the French empire, were involved in the constitution of knowledge about the Vietnamese past. Third, and finally, this paper demonstrates that archaeological knowledge did not remain the sole preserve of French scholars or indigenous elites, but was circulated and contested in an emergent colonial public sphere.
M3 - Article
SN - 1174-8915
VL - 6
SP - 111
EP - 126
JO - New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
JF - New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
IS - 2
ER -