Vietnamese Archaeological Terms

From: Marc Oxenham [mailto:p893110@student.ntu.edu.au]

Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:36 PM

To: thayerc@apcss.org

Subject: viet archaeology

Dr Carl Thayer

Can you tell me if there is such a thing as a list of Vietnamese archaeological

terms translated into English equivalents?

Cheers

Marc Oxenham

Centre for Southeast Asian Studies

Northern Territory University

Darwin NT 0909

Australia

Ph: (8) 89466771

Fax: (8) 89466955

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Vern Weitzel wrote:

Dear Mark and Carl,

Yes there is a list of archaeological terms produced by the Institute of Archaeology in Hanoi. But it is (as far as I know) out of print. The last copy I know of was given to Prof. Helmut Loofs-Wissowa who is at the ANU and can be reached via Vera Joveska Vera.Joveska@anu.edu.au

I'll also copy this message to Dr Long at the Archaeology Inst.

Cheers, Vern

From: Vern Weitzel [mailto:weitzel@undp.org.vn]

Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 8:42 AM

To: Vietnam Studies Group

Subject: Re: Vietnamese archaeological terms

I stand corrected. In fact I brought a copy of the book

to Viet Nam a few years ago for my colleagues at the Arch.

Inst. -- Not to be believed, Vern

From: Charles J Wheeler <charles.wheeler@yale.edu>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Vietnamese archaeological terms

I was just reading through a copy of a dictionary published by Dr. Loofs-Wissowa in 199o here in the Yale library (citation below), so I imagine the ANU library has it.

Charles Wheeler

Search Request: CL=CC70 L655 1990 Yale Library Catalog

BOOK - Record

Brief View

Author: Loofs-Wissowa, H. H. E. (Helmut Hermann Ernst)

Title: Vietnamese-English archaeological glossary: with English index / by H.H.E. Loofs-Wissowa ; with the assistance of Pham Van Minh and Nguyen M. Long.

Published: Canberra : Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1990.

Description: ix, 103 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects (Library of Congress):

Archaeology--Dictionaries--Vietnamese.

Vietnamese language--Dictionaries--English.

Subjects (Local Yale): sa97 07

From: Oscar Salemink <O.SALEMINK@FORDFOUND.ORG>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: RE: Vietnamese archaeological terms

I have two specialized dictionaries [tu dien] Russian - French - Vietnamese. Glossaries really. Not English I am afraid, but many of the technical French terms are very similar to English. For the Vietnamese terms - developing very fast - they do not seem quite up-to-date.

1) Tu dien thuat ngu su hoc - dan toc hoc - kao co hoc Nga - Phap - Viet. Hanoi 1978: NXB Khoa hoc Xa hoi. The publication was edited under the auspices of the Institute of Linguistics by Trong Bau, with advice from Ha Van Tan for the archaeological part. Three lists of words: Russian-VN-French; French-VN-Russian; Russian-French. 178 pp.

2) Tu dien thuat ngu khoa hoc xa hoi. Hanoi 1979: NXB KHXH. Same set of characters but different composition with three parts - Russian-VN, Franch-VN, VN-Russian. 561 pp.

Oscar Salemink

From: "C. Michele Thompson" <thompson_mc@scsu.ctstateu.edu>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Vietnamese archaeological terms

Dear all I'm sending this to the whole list as someone else may be interested.

There is a Vietnamese-English Archaeological glossary originally published by ANU press. Author is Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, it has recently been reissued by U. Hawaii press. I've seen the original and it is very helpfull, as soon as the one I've ordered comes in the mail I can give you full publication information for the new edition.

HOpe this is helpfull