Georges Condominas

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Georges Condominas (born June 29, 1921 in Hải Phòng , Vietnam , † July 17, 2011 in Paris ) was a French ethnologist . He wrote important works on an ethnic group that lives in the central high plateau of Vietnam. He was a co-signer of the Manifesto of 121 and in 1979 co-founded the Association française des anthropologues .

Life

Condominas was born in Hải Phong in ( Vietnam ) as the son of a French military man and a woman, some of whom had native ancestors.

“Before Condominas was drafted into the navy in Saigon in 1945, he frequently traveled back and forth between the colonial empire and France. After the Second World War he stayed in France again and discovered ethnology for himself. From 1947 to 1959 Condominas worked at ORSTOM [Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer, now Institut de recherche pour le développement] before he became research director at EHESS , where he founded the Center de Documentation et de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est et le Monde founded the island of India . He was also visiting professor at Yale University and Columbia University . "

Condominas was first known as the author of the book Nous avons mangé la forêt de la pierre-génie gôo (Hii saa Brii Mau-Yaang Gôo) (1957). Condominas stayed in the village of Sar Luk for almost two years and was almost completely immersed in the world of its residents.

In 2006 the Musée du quai Branly in Paris dedicated an exhibition to the objects he had brought with him.

Condominas 'book L'Exotique au quotidien was mentioned by Georges Devereux in the same breath as Claude Lévi-Strauss ' Sad Tropics and with Georges Balandier's Afrique ambiguë . "These three are the only major attempts I know of to evaluate the impact of his data and his scientific work on the scientist himself."

" Michel Leiris , Georges Condominas and Georges Balandier saw through the colonial conditions and took into account that as researchers who wanted to be neutral in colonized countries they were also representatives of an oppressive and exploitative power, which was due to their relationship to the 'research objects', the members of exotic races, had to work back. This reflection on their own point of view led all three researchers to question their personal motives for their ethnological activity [...] ”. ( Paul Parin )

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • Nous avons mangé la forêt de la pierre-génie gôo (Hii saa Brii Mau-Yaang Gôo) . Mercure de France, Paris 1957.
    • German: We ate the forest of the ghost stone Gôo. Chronicle d. Mnong Gar village of Sar Luk in the highlands of southern Vietnam . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1969.
  • L'exotique est quotidien. Chronique de Sar Luk, village mnong gar (tribu proto-indochinoise des hauts-plateaux du Viet-Nam central) . Plon, Paris 1977 ( Terre humaine ).

As editor

  • Formes extrêmes de dépendance. Contributions à l'étude de l'esclavage en Asie du Sud-Est . Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1998.

Secondary literature

  • Christine Hemmet (ed.): "Nous avons mangé la forêt ..." Georges Condominas au Vietnam (La collection du Musée du quai Branly ). Actes Sud, Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) 2006. 127 pp.: Ill., Ct. ISBN 2-7427-6145-4 (also catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Musée du quai Branly Paris, 23 June to December 17, 2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/stories.aspx?id=01baea23-5d8f-4b95-acb3-53a932050e75
  2. ↑ http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20110720194553.aspx
  3. ↑ http://www.fabriquedesens.net/spip.php?article57
  4. ^ Georges Devereux, Anxiety and Method in Behavioral Sciences , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein 1976, pp. 20/21
  5. ↑ Paul Parin, book review: Leiris, Michel: The own and the foreign culture. Ethnological writings. Frankfurt a. M. 1977. In: Psyche , vol. 32 (1978), pp. 177-179, online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.paul-parin.info  
personal data
SURNAME Condominas, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoi Phong , Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2011
Place of death Paris