Article: Rethinking approaches to the study of the Central Highlands of Vietnam: a review of Oscar Salemink's The Ethnography of the Central Highlanders of Vietnam and Gerald Hickey's Window on a War.(Book Review)

Despite the compendium of material available on the histories of Vietnam, the Indochina wars, and developments in post--doi moi Vietnam, writings in the English language about the Central Highlands of Vietnam remain limited.(1) Yet, two developments in post--doi moi Vietnam have rekindled the interests of Vietnam observers on the Central Highlands. First is the rapid expansion of coffee production in the highlands which led to Vietnam becoming the most important robusta coffee exporter in the world market (Tan 2000). The precedent of this development is the phenomenal migration of people from other parts of the country up to the "red hills" (for a detailed account, see ...

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