Genealogies of orientalism : history, theory, politics

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Illustrations Preface Introduction: Genealogies of Orientalism Edmund Burke III and David Prochaska Part 1. History 1. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge David Ludden 2. The Command of Language and the Language of Command Bernard S. Cohn 3. The Sociology of Islam: The French Tradition Edmund Burke III 4. Scientific Production and Position in the Intellectual and Political Fields: The Cases of Augustin Berque and Joseph Desparmet Fanny Colonna Part 2. Culture 5. The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered: A European Woman in l'Algerie francaise (Isabelle Eberhardt, 18771904) Julia Clancy-Smith 6. The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counterinsurgency Jenny Sharpe 7. Telling Photos David Prochaska 8. Ethnography and Exhibitionism at the Expositions Universelles Zeynep Celik and Leila Kinney Part 3. Power 9. Orientalist Counterpoints and Postcolonial Politics: Caste, Community, and Culture in Tamil India Nicholas B. Dirks 10. Taboo Memories and Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews Ella Shohat 11. Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism Arif Dirlik 12. Profiteering Women and Primitive Communists: Propriety and Scandal in Interwar Japanese Studies of Okinawa Alan S. Christy Source Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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