Abstract

In recent years, higher education in Vietnam has undergone a lot of changes in such various aspects as the formation of multidisciplinary, multi-field universities; of training forms etc. Especially, a lot of majors originating from advanced capitalist countries have been developed into training courses in Vietnamese universities, e.g. politics, international relations, religious studies, anthropology etc. The formation of institutions offering training courses on anthropology has broken the traditional structure of the organizing of training courses in the fields of ethnology and history in Vietnam higher education institutions. The paper does not aim at discussing the similarities nor differences between Ethnology and Anthropology, but focuses on the necessities to transform from Ethnology to Anthropology in every aspect from objectives, approach to methods, objects, research scope etc.