SOC 885 Chapter 2:
11 Dec 2019
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Created orientalism because of the portrayal of the orient and arabs in the media and press- looked at how westerners were talking about the orient. He said there was a pattern in european arts and literature (18th and 19th century european arts and literature). *this idea that all fo the east was the same. He found that the west was often portryaed as . Everything the east was not (east was the opposite of all this) The corporate institution for dealing with the orient; dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it. Orientalism is a way of viewing the orient. A system of representations framed by a whole set of forces: colonialism and. It is a system of representation- a system of talking about the east imperialism. The orient as the subject of knowledge. Pretext for projects of domination- a justification for colonialism.
