A Dutch national, Salemink studied anthropology and modern Asian history in the Netherlands, doing research on the highland minorities of Vietnam’s Central Highlands an on the history of anthropology in Vietnam, France, the United States and Britain. In the past, he was attached to the University of Nijmegen, the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam, besides working as a consultant for international organizations and NGO’s. Publications include ‘Mois and Maquis: The Invention and Appropriation of Vietnam’s Montagnards from Sabatier to the CIA’ in George Stocking’s Colonial Situations (1991); ‘Colonial Enthnographies,’ a special issue of History and Anthropology (co-edited with Peter Pels—1994); ‘The King of Fire and Vietnamese Ethnic Policy in the Central Highlands’ in Ken Kampe’s and Don McCaskill’s Development of Domestication? Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia (1997); and Colonial Subjects: A Practical History of Anthropology (co-edited with Peter Pels—in print).