Mnong Gar

On Monday, July 26, 2021, 10:17:55 AM EDT, Vernon, Alex <vernon@hendrix.edu> wrote:

Good morning, all! Two questions--

I’m reading an account of an American operating north of DaLat in 1964 that references that “Mnungar” tribes along the Sông Krông Nô. Does he mean the M’Nông?

Also, does anyone know of good discussions about Harvard’s Center for International Affairs role in the U.S.’s policy toward Vietnam during the war?

Thanks!

alex

Alex Vernon

(he/him/his)

M.E. and Ima Graves Peace Distinguished Professor of English

Hendrix College

From: Vsg <vsg-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Jean Michaud

Sent: Monday, July 26, 2021 8:52 AM

To: Vsg@u.washington.edu; Vernon, Alex <Vernon@hendrix.edu>

Subject: Re: [Vsg] two questions for the VSG brain trust

Hi Alex,

Yes, that is what Americans observers decided to call them. To pursue this, Georges Condominas famously wrote his dissertation (and subsequent book 'We Have Eaten the Forest') about the group he called the 'Mnong Gar' of the Upper Donnai River; he explains in that book the genealogy of the ethnonym. In the 1970s, the Vietnamese state ethnologists elected to officiallize the name M'Nông/Mnông.

Best,

Jean Michaud

Professor of Anthropology

Université Laval, Canada