Tropicality and topicality: Pierre Gourou and the genealogy of French colonial scholarship on rural Vietnam

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-358

  Kleinen, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human geography; Red River Delta; Tropicality; Vietnam; Village studies

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; GENEALOGY; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; RURAL SOCIETY;

ASIA; EURASIA; RED RIVER DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33745239242     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2005.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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