The way that many of us view the past today is the product of scholaship that has been produced in the post-colonial era, and that has in some cases specifically sought to counter what some scholars have perceived as certain faults of colonial-era scholars. One clear example of this concerns the role that migration played […]

Before we can examine the latest information on Vietnamese prehistory, we have to address a couple of important issues: “race” and the “knowledge divide.” The term “race” can be found in various writings on Vietnamese prehistory, and that creates certain difficulties. One big problem is that the way that scholars have understood and used the […]

I recently published an article that dealt with the topic of the prehistory of the area of what is today Vietnam. The articled is entitled “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’: Diaspora, the Internet and a New Version of Vietnamese Prehistory,” and in it I discuss the writings of a group of authors on the “fringe” […]