Incidental Ethnographers: Considerations on Missionary and Military Ethnography from the Borderlands of Tonkin and Yunnan

This article is part of an ongoing writing project that started with the publication, in 2007, of the book ‘Incidental’ Ethnographers. French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930, and continues with an assessment of colonial military ethnographic texts in the same region.