From the time ethnology was established as a field in Vietnam, one of its key tasks has been to foster and maintain national unity, while at the same time preserving and developing 'ethnic distinctiveness' and diversity. During the first thirty years of ethnology's development, the focus of ethnographic endeavours was to incorporate the different ethnic groups into the national whole, so as to ...

Forensic anthropology typically uses osteological and/or dental data either to estimate characteristics of unidentified individuals or to serve as evidence in cases where there is a putative identification. In the estimation context, the problem is to describe aspects of an individual that may lead to their eventual identification, whereas in the evidentiary context, the problem is to provide t...

July 1989 T ethnology transfer has become an important area of concern in software engineering. Yet we do not have good frameworks for systematically studying the nature of software-technology transfer, nor for developing sound and prescriptive strategies for facilitating successful diffusion. Softwareengineering technology, as Peter Freeman has defined it,’ consists of any concepts, tools, tec...

Derek Freeman’s Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (1983) attacked both the conclusions and methodology of Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). Freeman set out to refute Mead’s interpretation of a peaceful, sexually permissive Samoan society and, equally important, to discredit Mead’s cultural determinism, the assumption that the roots of human behavior...