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After orientalism : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations /
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The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor - the political critique of "colonial science" - that had already significantly impacted the humanities and social sciences. In a recent attempt to broaden the debate, the papers collected in this volume, offered at various seminars and an international symposium held in Paris in 2010-2011, critically examine whether Orientalism, as knowledge and as creative expression, was in fact fundamentally subservient to Western domination. By raising new issues, the papers shift the focus from the center to the peripheries, thus analyzing the impact on local societies of a major intellectual and institutional movement that necessarily changed not only their world, but the ways in which they represented their world. World history, which assumes a plurality of perspectives, leads us to observe that the Saidian critique applies to powers other than Western European ones - three case studies are considered here: the Ottoman, Russian (and Soviet), and Chinese empires. Other essays in this volume proceed to analyze how post-independence states have made use of the tremendous accumulation of knowledge and representations inherited from previous colonial regimes for the sake of national identity, as well as how scholars change and adapt what was once a hegemonic discourse for their own purposes. What emerges is a new landscape in which to situate research on non-Western cultures and societies, and a road-map leading readers beyond the restrictive dichotomy of a confrontation between West and East. With contributions by: Elisabeth Allès; Léon Buskens; Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Baudouin Dupret; Edhem Eldem; Olivier Herrenschmidt; Nicholas S. Hopkins; Robert Irwin; Mouldi Lahmar; Sylvette Larzul; Jean-Gabriel Leturcq; Jessica Marglin; Claire Nicholas; Emmanuelle Perrin; Alain de Pommereau; François Pouillon; Zakaria Rhani; Emmanuel Szurek; Jean-Claude Vatin; Mercedes Volait
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Original French title: Après l'orientalisme : l'Orient créé par l'Orient.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004282537 :
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Dolce far niente in Arabia : Georg August Wallin and his travels in the 1840s /
: Translated of : Dolce far niente i Arabien : Georg August Wallin och hans resor på 1840-talet. : 144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-138) and index. : 9789515832900
Vieillesse, sagesse et tradition dans les civilisations orientales = Old Age, wisdom and tradition in the Oriental Civilizations /
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"Anton Schoors in honorem." -- Cover. :
xviii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography of the works of Antoon Schoors: p.xv-xviii.
The Ancient Eastern Mediterranean : centennial symposium, 1889-1989. /
: "Papers presented at a symposium to celebrate the centennial year of the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, March 31, 1990, edited by Eleanor Guralnick"--cover pages1. : 73 pages, [27] pagesof plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0960904220
The Ancient Eastern Mediterranean : centennial symposium, 1889-1989.
: "Papers presented at a symposium to celebrate the centennial year of the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, March 31, 1990, edited by Eleanumberr Guralnick"--cover p. 1. : 73 pages, [27] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0960904220
Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) : The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist /
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In this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic culture of his day, especially of seventeenth-century oriental studies. His extant Nachlass allows a close scrutiny of the life and work of an early modern scholar, focussing on his training, travels, the ambitious Harmonia linguarum orientalium (1647) and other works, and the interests he fostered as a professor of history and theology in Jena. It aims to shed light on the broad and understudied field of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Germany.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004466463
9789004466449
Pioneers to the past : American archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920 /
: "This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, presented at the Oriental Institute Museum, January 12 to August 23, 2010"--T.p. verso. : 160 pages : illustration (some color), maps, portraits ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and indexes.