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Learn more about the Mountain Dwellers of Vietnam

30 August 2018 | News EDK

If you have not yet had time to read our website in full, you are perhaps wondering “What are Mountain Dwellers ?”. Mountain Dwellers is another name for the ethnic minorities of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. You can learn more about them on this website in the Life in Vietnam section by reading The Ethnic Minorities chapter.

To learn even more about the Mountain Dwellers, we recommend :

  • the excellent and touching documentary film Montagnards Oubliés (Forgotten Mountain Dwellers, unfortunately only available in French). Here is the synopsis of this film : between 1971 and 1975, some twenty children of the Central Highlands of Vietnam were transferred from their families of origin to volunteer host families across France. These children were aged about twelve and left Vietnam with the permission of their parents and under the authority of the Foreign Mission priests of Paris. 30 years later, where are they now ? How do they remember this time of separation ?
  • the book “Des Hommes Debout” (Upright Men, unfortunately only available in French), published in 1977, by Paul L. Seitz (membre of the Foreign Mission of Paris and Bishop of Kontum from 1952 to 1975). This book is of significant ethnological interest.
  • the book “The Bahnar People in Viêt Nam”, a more recent book published in 2011 in English, by Bùi Minh Dao, Trân Hông Thu and Bùi Bích Lan.
Des Hommes Debout - En savoir plus sur les Montagnards du Vietnam
The Bahnar People in Vietnam - En savoir plus sur les Montagnards du Vietnam